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Meet our Scholars

The Society worked with the Department for Education to run the RGS-IBG Geography Teacher Training Scholarship programme for trainee geography teachers, launched in 2017-18 and running to 2020-21.

Rowena Butterworth

Rowena was a Geography Scholar in 2017-2018. Here she reflects on the benefits the Scholarship programme has provided to her.

Josh Sutheran

Josh Sutheran was a Geography Scholar in 2017–2018. Here he reflects on why he wanted to become a geography teacher, and how the Scholarship Programme was beneficial.