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Article: Fatima rises to top of the class.
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2009
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WHILE most schoolchildren dreaded the end of the summer holidays, most parents joked that they couldn't wait for the start of the new academic year.
One mum in particular was really looking forward to the start of September as she would be walking through the gates of her local school as a newlyqualified member of staff.
On successfully completing her qualifications at Birmingham Metropolitan College, Fatima Hussein secured a role as a supply teaching assistant at Highclare School in Erdington.
Not only has Pakistan-born Fatima overcome a limited grasp of English, she also had to recover from the deaths of her husband and parents, before ...