Teach First founder to advise government's Big Society programme
The founder of the Teach First movement Nat Wei has been appointed as an adviser on the government's Big Society programme and has also been made a member of the House of Lords.
Wei will work alongside civil society minister Nick Hurd, to lead on the delivery of the flagship Conservative programme that was set out today by Prime Minister David Cameron.
As well as co-founding Teach First, a charity that identifies and trains top graduates to move to a career in teaching, Wei founded the social reform charity the Shaftesbury partnership, which was central in forming The Challenge, the prototype used by the Conservative's National Citizen Service scheme.
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