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Daily Mirror
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Antony Thrower & Tai Kolade

Man unable to read or write at 18 becomes youngest Black professor at Cambridge

A man who only learned how to read and write when he was 18 and could not speak until he was 11 has become Cambridge University’s youngest Black professor.

Therapists had predicted Jason Arday would need lifelong support in an assisted living home.

However he proved everybody wrong and next month will start at the University of Cambridge as Professor of Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education.

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