Change Your Story with Nia Parry
This is the podcast where we hear inspirational stories about people who are gaining qualifications and learning new skills later in life. Host Nia Parry will be asking what drove her guests to change their story. And what advice they have for you if you want to change your story too. This podcast is supported by First Campus Reaching Wider, which is a partnership tackling barriers and supporting progression to higher education.
Episodes
Jonathan Gilbert was a practising solicitor who got sentenced to 12 years for his part in a large fraud. Johnny put this experience to good use in prison and enrolled on a masters in counter fraud and counter corruption. He's now teaching at Cardiff University.
Garry Parkinson promised his late mum he'd turned his back on crime after spending 10 of ...
Claire Arnold got her qualifications at school - not the first time but when she went back as a learning support assistant in her 20s. There she gained a degree and the GCSEs she didn’t get at 16.
Meanwhile, Flick Stock had always thought education wasn’t for her. But after signing up to do a course in British Sig...
Larysa Aqbaso was an English teacher in her native Ukraine. After an identity crisis on arrival in the U.K., she adapted her skills to teach English to speakers of other languages (ESOL).
It’s a form of learning that helped Chawan Ali, who left Iraq with her family unable to speak a word of English. After a year le...
Sian Sexton was shortlisted for the Welsh learners prize at this year's Eisteddfod. But while Sian started learning when she sent her children to Welsh medium school, it wasn't until the kids got older that really started applying herself.
One of Sian's teachers, Helen Prosser, has a combination of Sunday school and ...
Johnny Spence’s severe dyslexia meant his school years were miserable and he ultimately fell into a bad crowd. Scott Jenkinson was homeless, a drug addict and spent time in a Spanish prison. Both talk to Nia about how education helped save them.
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