Education has been an integral part of Simon Boucher’s life for a very long time. When he was around 10 years of age, the Dubliner was living in west Africa, his family drawn there through his father’s work with the European Commission. “In Ireland, there’s a big focus on the Leaving Certificate and getting to college,” he tells The Currency. “The big exam in Gambia, where I lived, was the Common Entrance, which was the exam to get you into secondary school, because there was only one secondary school in the country. “You can imagine how intense the competition was,…

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