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My experience of education has been shaped by 11 years working within an outstanding school in York. The schools progress 8 performance for all students is almost four times the local average and the three-year trend of excellent performance places the school's outcomes in the top 4% nationally. In the last 8 years of my mainstream education career, I worked in management roles as a Head of Department and Head of Year. My classes at A-Level consistently scored between the 90th and 99th percentile and in my final year of teaching in 2019 my validated GCSE value added score was 1.08.​Since then, I have taken on the role of Director of Education for an Independent Training Provider where we delivered apprenticeships, traineeships and study programmes. This has led me to create Keats Engineering and Education alongside my business partner Trevor Waddington. ​In the next 10 years my vision is to help drive a more balanced inclusive curriculum for all learners, incorporating their different passions and skills. Ultimately allowing learners to thrive. Currently education favours learners who excel in reading and writing. This leads to valid questions such as where and how do the visual, audio and kinaesthetic learners reach their full potential? Have we failed a generation of these learners who may be in low paid service industries?​The biggest social and demographic barrier to equality in education is apathy. Many learners do not think they can, so they do not. We need to find a way to encourage a can-do attitude so they believe they can and will. With the right support and guidance to enable them to find their passion and skill set. Keats Engineering and Education will achieve this by putting the learner at the centre of everything we do, providing a personalised hands-on approach that is led by industry experts.