As I am also a Manchester Alumnus, I did my MEd at Manchester and also an EdD, I get the regular updates about the great and the good who were once students at Manchester. So, I discover that Benedict Cumberbach (the new Sherlock Holmes on the BBC) is a Manky boy, along with quite a few others.
I am happy that Manchester has many successful well known people amongst its alumni. However, I got to thinking whilst I was in Morocco about all of the names in Tech and TESOL who are Manchester graduates, too. The much quoted Nik Peachey and Graham Stanley are examples, but there are many others who have gone on to have successful careers in the field. We have plenty of well-known bloggers (see right side bar) and we have people like Tony Brace in Japan who has started his own school (see new links in the side bar), colleagues who now work at sister universities in the UK: Aisha Walker.
I’ve decided it’s time to start working to promote our alumni more, so I’m going to try to have a student story of the month. I’d like people to email me their stories and we might try to do some online interviews, too. Watch this space 
Gary Motteram
