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Organisation/Affiliation
Professor
of Public Policy and Education at Liverpool John Moores University
Policy adviser to the Secretary of State for Education
& Employment
Research consultant to the DfEE
Member of the Governments Foundation Degree Group and
chair of its working sub-group
Has recently been appointed to the UfIs Learning
Quality & Standards Committee
Is currently undertaking a major review for the joint
Welsh Funding Councils of efficiency and effectiveness in Welsh universities
and colleges, and is providing expert advice to the Welsh Assembly
Before taking up his present research post, he served
in senior institutional management from 1987 until 1994 as Director of Access,
Executive Director for Policy Development and Director of Academic
Programmes
Interests in Life Long Learning
In
1994, published the wide-ranging government-sponsored Choosing to Change [the
Robertson report], a review of access, choice and mobility in further and
higher education
Leading figure in seeking to establish partnerships
for a community of learning in Liverpool, being responsible for the initial
development and management of the large credit-based modular scheme at the
University
Founder and first Director of the Merseyside Open
College Federation which, together with the University's modular scheme,
enabled learners to progress within and between further and higher education
through an extensive cross-sectoral curriculum framework across the Merseyside
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