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Karen Weir (Consultant, African Caribbean parents and community)

Karen started her career in education five years ago as an Academic Study Skills lecturer at the London Metropolitan University. This was after more than a decade spent working in the media, beginning in newspapers and ending as a broadcast journalist at the BBC World Service Radio. This later role involved a posting abroad as the BBC news correspondent in Jamaica.

Karen is a qualified Adult ESOL and Literacy tutor and was a Skills For Life curriculum team leader and at Westminster Kingsway College. She has also taught an AS level in Critical Thinking, as part of an Aim Higher Saturday school programme to students from the East of London.

Karen is also Chair of the Islington Black Governors Forum, and runs an after-school activity where children learn English, Maths and Reasoning Skills. Whilst working in the EMA Service, she has project managed African-Caribbean parents conferences and coordinated the recruitment on specific training programms (BME male teaching assistants). She co-ordinated the London Borough of Islington Black History Month 2008 celebrations.

Downloads and Links

African Caribbean Achievements

Black History Month 2009 - Hidden Histories

Black History Month 2008 - Celebrating Science