UK: Former Dixons City Academy pupil has new mountain to climb

The son of Dr Abdul Bary Malik MBE, chairman of Bradford’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, he was among the first crop of pupils to study at City Technology College when it opened 20 years ago.

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By Ben Barnett | July 28, 2010

A former Bradford school teacher has landed a high-profile job at a prestigious international school.

Raised in Great Horton, Hadi Malik, 31, is swapping his home city for Switzerland, where he has been appointed head of lower school PE at the International School Basel.

The son of Dr Abdul Bary Malik MBE, chairman of Bradford’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, he was among the first crop of pupils to study at City Technology College when it opened 20 years ago.

He left for the University of Bradford, taking a degree in law and marketing.

Mr Malik went to London when he graduated to join the police force via a graduate programme, but it did not suit him and he played reserve team football for Dagenham & Redbridge.


He took a top-up degree conversion course with a view to becoming a teacher and completed a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham.

Aged 24, he returned to Bradford and became a PE teacher at his old school, now renamed Dixons City Academy, before he was appointed as school sports co-ordinator for schools in Huddersfield.

During this time be built a professional relationship with his beloved Liverpool Football Club and he was invited to play against their academy team.

It is his bulging CV which has earned him a move abroad.

Mr Malik said: “It’s an exciting time but I’m feeling quite melancholy now it is so close because I’m Bradford born and bred.

“I’ll be teaching children from 55 different nationalities but the language won’t be a problem because they all speak English.”




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