Why I became a citizenship teacher: to give young people a stake in society

 Avais Qureshi is passionate about his subject but also finds the pastoral side rewarding. Photograph: Avais Qureshi
My mum's big ambition for me was to get a degree. She is really bright but never got the opportunity to go to university, so that was always my goal when I was at school. My mum's a single parent and lives with the rest of our family in Pakistan. When I was growing up in east London I didn't really know much about different careers. The idea of the great career in my

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