Winner rubs shoulders with business gurus
Nick Wergan and Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
Nick Wergan, UK winner of the 2007 TDA Award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year, who swapped his city job for a career in teaching, will visit Downing Street this month as a guest of Business in the Community (BITC), a charity of HRH Prince of Wales.
Later in the day (July 7) Nick will co-present the Merrill Lynch Education Award, supported by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, at the Royal Albert Hall alongside Sir Stuart Rose, chief executive of Marks and Spencer, and Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times.
The BITC Awards for Excellence identify and celebrate businesses that have made a significant contribution to their local community, environment, market or workplace.
The Award for Education, for which TA chief executive Caroline Evans is also a judge, recognises sustained partnerships between companies and schools.
Nick, head of English at Sackville School, East Grinstead will be moving at the end of term. In September he becomes an assistant head at Blatchington Mill School, Brighton and Hove.
