Obeng de Lawrence
Obeng de Lawrence is one of Britain's leading educationists, from the minority ethnic community. He was born in Ghana and educated in the United Kingdom . Obeng de Lawrence spent several years teaching in the London Borough of Newham.
De Lawrence has been hailed as an educational innovator in the United Kingdom after he launched the first ever Teachers Adaptation course aimed at helping highly qualified individuals from abroad to overcome traditional barriers and gain essential skills to work wherever they chose.
He launched Dream Harvest College based in Stratford, East London , in 2001, offering the first Adaptation course in the United Kingdom. Since then hundreds of people have gone on to careers in teaching in the United Kingdom and all over the world. Dream Harvest College is now one of the most successful educational, institutions from the minority ethnic community.
'At Dream Harvest, we try to prepare teachers from overseas so they can overcome their fears related to teaching in a foreign country,' said Obeng de Lawrence. Dream Harvest College is held up as an example of good practice.
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