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Ms. Ted McGrath previously served as IB coordinator and head of sixth form at Dulwich International College in Thailand. She has extensive experience in international education and leadership and is committed to developing quality academic programmes and raising standards in education. She undertook frequent responsibilities for the International Baccalaureate Organization in the Asia Pacific region, including authorising candidate IB World Schools, joining the regional five-year and creativity, action, service (CAS) review panels, and leading CAS workshops. In 2002 Ms. McGrath was awarded the European Council of International Schools Adult Award for the promotion of international education.
Ms. McNally graduated with a BA Hons in English and Drama from King Alfreds College, Winchester she then did her PGCE at Kings College, London. McNally has taught in various secondary schools in England, leading drama departments and, more recently, establishing Enterprise as a whole school initiative. Four of her fourteen years of teaching have been spent teaching English in Atlanta, USA . Ms. McNally has also just completed a year of international travel, taking me to Thailand, Australia and the USA.
After completing his MPhil in Mathematics, Dr. Mir worked as a mathematics teacher for a residential premier school in northern Pakistan with students from different cultural backgrounds in the region. In 2001 he came to Oxford and studied for a Post Graduate Diploma in mathematics Teaching and learning. During his stay in Oxford he worked for different schools in Oxfordshire. In 2003 Himat started his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Surrey. During his PhD he taught International Baccalaureate Diploma higher level maths in a local school. He is also IB examiner for higher Maths. Himat has been teaching in state schools since his PGCE in 2009.
Mr. Forrester earned a bachelor’s degree in genetics from University of Leeds in 1986. After receiving a postgraduate certificate in education from University of Hull, Forrester went on to teach biology in Tanzania as part of a Volunteer Services Overseas project. He became a qualified cytogeneticist, and his work included leukaemia research at the Paterson Institute in Manchester. Currently, Forrester is combining his work at EF with being an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. He teaches a health and social care foundation degree course and is studying for a master’s degree in mind, brain and learning.
After graduating from Glasgow University with a master’s degree in mathematics, Ms. Webb worked for a major accountancy firm as a qualified accountant and subsequently as a financial analyst for a multinational company. She completed her postgraduate certificate in education at Warwick University and embarked on a career as a teacher in both state and independent schools. She has worked with students across a wide range of ages and abilities.
Mr. Barker has a master’s degree in business administration, and he has extensive experience teaching management and business subjects at the university level and for professional management bodies. In addition to his teaching and theoretical knowledge, he has many years of experience at the senior management and director level in the information technology industry. Mr. Barker finds that this practical experience helps teach students about the practical application of management theory.
Since training in Oxford, Mr. Plant has spent over ten years teaching English, geography and business in both the UK and China. His experience ranges from training English teachers in rural Anhui to tutoring managers of Fortune 500 companies in Shanghai. He has worked for EF since 2004 in a number of different capacities: at language schools, in corporate training positions and now at EF International Academy Oxford. In his spare time he enjoys collecting obscure 1960s records and studying. He is currently teaching himself Mandarin Chinese and plans to start on Cantonese next.
Mr. Lewis has taught science in the UK, Bahrain, Portugal and Japan since 1987. He studied chemistry at Cardiff University and did his PGCE at Bristol University. He started teaching IB Chemistry at St. Julian’s School in Portugal in 1999 and has mainly taught IB Chemistry and Theory of Knowledge since then. He attended IB workshops in Croatia in 2000 and Spain in 2003. Mr. Lewis’ extensive teaching experience in Europe, the Middle East and Far East has prepared him well for working at EF International Academy, Oxford. He also enjoys sport and runs a rugby club as part of the IB CAS and the academy’s activities programme.
Mr. Blundell pursued his bachelor’s degree and postgraduate certificate in education at Trinity College, Oxford, and graduated with an honours degree in cellular biochemistry. Following his studies, he worked in the private sector before committing himself fully as an educator. He has taught in Oxford for several years and served as a director of studies prior to joining the EF International Academy faculty.