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Wild about chemistry

The Department of Chemistry will receive a £1m donation from alumnus Dr Anthony Wild

The University of York’s Department of Chemistry is to receive a truly transformation matching gift from alumnus Dr Anthony H Wild.

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Yorklife / 16 November 201613 February 2017

What makes a good teacher? Your thoughts

We asked our alumni teachers what they think about their profession

They may all have the University of York in common but since graduating their vocation has taken them to all sorts of different teaching establishments, […]

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Open minds / 19 May 20166 July 2016

Teach First and Me: when failure isn’t an option

Self-doubt is just one of the pressures Harry Morgan faces as a trainee teacher

by Harry Morgan

During the six weeks of Summer Institute – the crash course in teacher training all Teach First participants undergo – our tutors frequently told us that the next two years would be ‘the hardest experience of our lives’.

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All about yu / 1 February 2016

Teach First and me

2015 grad Harry Morgan is about to become a teacher. We’ll be following his progress in this new blog series

by Harry Morgan

Though I knew I was joining Teach First in October 2014, it didn’t make my final day in York any easier. It definitely wasn’t easy saying goodbye to friends I’d made, while knowing also that The Willow would soon be closing down too.

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All about yu / 25 July 20151 September 2015
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