FT Guide to Business Training

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Have you ever felt that what you did long ago almost belonged to another life?

Did Jeremy really teach for three years? Well, yes – 11-year-olds up to ‘A’ Level in a minor public school called Kelly College in Devon. He loved university and only reluctantly faced the fact that it would end. Having abandoned an ambition to act, Jeremy had little or no idea what he wanted to do when he left university. He applied to teach at Kelly College, a school on the edge of Dartmoor, and managed to wangle his way into this school initially to teach up to GCSE and run various sports teams, before even completing a teaching qualification. Jeremy always remembers one part of the interview. He said to Chris Hirst, the headmaster: ...