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Arif was born in 1975 in Moshi, Tanzania. He is the middle member of a family of three, an elder sister and a younger brother. He is married, has two daughters, and is settled in London, UK. In 1992, he passed nine GCSE subjects, excelling in the sciences. He took three A-Levels for the next two years, his main interest being in the Biology subject. He then went on to Kingston University, in Surrey, for a degree course in Applied Biology. Three years of studious effort prized him a first class honours classification in Applied Biology.
Arif pursued a research based final year project in the new area of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. The field work was carried out at the St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, where he worked on the research of cervical cancer predictive techniques using Recombinant DNA technology. His research was put forward for the UK Biology Nationwide competition for an outstanding project. He was awarded one of the top three biologists in 1998 for his project excellence. The UK Institute of Biology has awarded him an Honorary Member, and he is a Chartered Member with the Institute of Biology.
He trained for the PGCE teacher training course at Roehampton Institute London and qualified in 1999, when he took up his first teaching post at a local Community School, London, UK. He began initially by teaching Science at all levels in the secondary school. The following year he was made the Head of KS3 Science, Head of Biology and Acting Deputy Head of Science, responsibility levels which are not normally attained after one year’s experience. In the following year, he was promoted to Head of KS4 Science and Deputy Head of Sixth Form. By the beginning of the academic year, 2002/03, Arif surpassed himself to the post of Head of Sixth Form at a young age of 28. Most recently, he additionally took up the Post of Non-Executive Director at the Department for Education and Skills and is a member of several Borough Education Forums and Steering Groups.
At the communal level, Arif has taught Science at the Husaini Tuition at Stanmore for two years. He has also been a very prominent member of the course team for the GCSE Study Skills Course annually in Birmingham, organised by WF/CoEJ. He is one of two speakers at the annual WF/CoEJ University UCAS Seminars and lectures on the A-Level Biology Intensive courses for the community. He came as a teacher to the WF/CoEJ GCSE Revision Course in 2004, AS Revision Course in 2006, and as Lecturer to the Sweden 2003 camp.
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