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Promoting Scholarship

Building non-academic skills for life success

Ruth Tarrant

21st June 2016

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I came across the charity Big Change at the weekend, which aims to help young people develop the life skills that they need to succeed and improve social mobility.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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