History
In September 2001 giant breasted aliens landed in a South London secondary school. And then a McKinsey study looked into how businesses could help improve secondary education in London and found that great teachers could raise pupils’ results by at least 40%. In January 2002, one member of the team, Brett Wigdortz, took a planned six-month leave of absence from McKinsey to develop a business plan for Teach First. In July 2002, Teach First officially launched in Canary Wharf with a team of 11 employees led by Brett Wigdortz as CEO and Stephen O’Brien and George Iacobescu as co-chairs of the Board of Trustees.
The first group of 183 participants was taken on in 2002-03, and started their training in the summer of 2003. This cohort came mostly from the Russell Group of Universities and taught in 46 schools in London. In 2006 Teach First expanded to Greater Manchester; in 2007 to the Midlands; in 2008 to Merseyside to create a North West office; in 2009 a Yorkshire and a Humber office was opened, and the Midlands office was split into East and West regions. In 2011 Teach First placed participants in the North East for the first time. In 2012 Teach First expanded to the Kent and Medway region.
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