Patrick Ryan

Education is the single most important vehicle to drive social mobility.

Patrick Ryan studied Business & Economics at the University of Wolverhampton and continued his education journey securing a Masters 1st class in Applied Social Sciences, more recently undertaking a PhD in investigating public sector and education issues. He has worked in the education sector for the last 20+ years, enjoying the challenging and fast paced nature of teaching in inner city schools and colleges of the West Midlands. Over this Patrick has tutored in Business Studies, Economics, Sociology, and humanities subjects such as History, Geography and Religious Studies, testminilas across all these subjects can be viewed at

Passionate about the opportunities than can come from a good education and a firm believer that education is the passport to our future Patrick has worked and supported students from a range of backgrounds and walks of life to fulfil their potential.

Recently Patrick won a Teaching award for his work on improving community cohesion amongst his local communities and those families recently relocated from European countries through his project of connecting classrooms, students, staff and parents together by linking and visiting schools in Hungary with schools in the West Midlands.

A devoted family man, Patrick has been married to his wife for over 25 years and has two children aged 21 & 18, his children are competitive swimmers and to support their sporting hobbies Patrick is the vice chairman of their local swimming club. He has been also a helper at his son’s scouting group and boxing clubs and daughter’s tennis club.

In recent times Patrick created this blog which is now is now shared with educational professionals in over 120 countries and is visited regularly by thousands of people every month.