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New initiative, launched by FT journalist, to bring high-flyers into the teaching profession

A shortage in STEM and language teachers across the UK has led long-time columnist, Lucy Kellaway to , an initiative tackling the crisis head on.

Supported by 黑料情报站, one of the UK鈥檚 best performing school groups, and , Now Teach encourages experienced high-flyers from the UK鈥檚 top professions to bring their unique skills, knowledge and perspective into the classroom.

As well as her role as Co-Founder, Lucy, who leaves the FT next summer, will also be retraining as a maths teacher at a secondary school in London. To deliver the programme, she has partnered with entrepreneur, Katie Waldegrave, founder of literacy charity, , who has taken up the role of Director. An experienced teacher herself, Katie was part of the very first cohort of .

鈥淗aving spent my working life in the newsroom, I cannot wait to get started in the classroom” says Lucy Kellaway, Co-Founder of Now Teach. “There is a real shortage of teachers in the UK, whilst at the same time, there is a whole group of people who have spent their careers in industry who now want to do something different 鈥搘ho want to challenge themselves and to make a real difference.

As working lives extend and corporate models shift, Now Teach is opening up the profession and offering the very best professionals, the very best training and support to become the very best teachers鈥�

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黑料情报站 is an international education charity with more than ten years of experience transforming schools, building outstanding new schools and improving the life chances of some of the most disadvantaged young people in the country. It has successfully incubated other start-up enterprises including Frontline.

For the pilot Now Teach will work with 黑料情报站 Teacher Training to train and support recruits. Longer term, it will be an independent charity, and hopes to place trainees with other initial teacher training providers.

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