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Patrick Ainley is Reader in Learning Policy at the University of Greenwich School of Post-Compulsory Education and Training. His latest book is Learning Policy, Towards the Certified Society (Macmillan, 1999) and he is co-editor with Helen Rainbird of Apprenticeship, Towards a New Paradigm of Learning (Kogan Page, 1999). He is co-author with Bill Bailey of The Business of Learning, Staff and Student Experiences of Further Education in the 1990s (Cassell, 1997), a companion to Degrees of Difference: higher education in the 1990s (Lawrence and Wishart, 1994), Class and Skill, Changing divisions of knowledge and labour (Cassell, 1993) and, with Mark Corney, Training for the Future: The rise and fall of the Manpower Services Commission (Cassell, 1990).
Ronald Barnett is Dean of Professional Development and Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London. He is an institutional leader, with an informed insight into the challenging nature of higher education in the modern world and has edited, co-authored and authored a number of books some of which have been national prizewinners. His most recent book Realizing the University in an Age of Supercomplexity, was published by Open University Press. He was a team leader in the Dearing Report (1997), and has been consultant to a significant number of committees, including Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales (the Barnett Report), Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
Michael Bassey is Emeritus Professor of Education at Nottingham Trent University and Academic Secretary of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). Of his eight books the latest is Case Study Research in Educational Settings. For BERA he edits Research Intelligence and his contribution to this volume draws on some of his recent editorials. He was active in setting up the new Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and draws on this experience. He is currently working on the philosophical concept of fuzzy prediction and, in a different dimension, the empowerment of school children to tackle global warming.
Richard Brown became Director of the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) in July 1996 and Chief Executive in 1999. He is also Chairman of the Executive Board of The National Centre for Work Experience (NCWE) a subsidiary of CIHE, funded by government to develop the agenda on quality work experience. He has held senior positions in both the public and private sectors. In the Department of Trade and Industry he dealt, among other matters, with European policy and inward investment. At Meyer International, and then at the National Grid Company he was General Manager in charge of business strategy and new business development. He became Chief Executive in a partnership-based development agency in 1993 before joining CIHE early in 1996.
Phil Cohen is Professor of Applied Cultural Studies at the University of East London where he currently directs the centre for New Ethnicities Research. His recent publications include New Ethnicities, Old racisms (Zed Books, 1999) and Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, labour and cultural studies (Duke University, 1998).
Cornel DaCosta is Deputy Head in the Department of Education and Community Studies at the University of East London. He has had substantial experience of course development and teaching in schools, further and higher education. His research and scholarly work has been in the areas of higher education, multicultural education, and teacher education/training. He has published extensively and is the coauthor and coeditor of Usable Knowledges as the Goal of Higher Education, and A selected Bibliography of Competence-Based Education and Training. In 1981, he founded with Colin Mably, the International Society for Teacher Education which today has a worldwide membership and publishes an international journal. The society promotes international research and individual and institutional collaboration.
Meghnad Desai (Lord Desai of St Clement Danes) is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Born in July 1940, he was educated at the University of Bombay. He secured his PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has written extensively on a wide range of subjects. From 19841991, he was co-editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He has been both Chair and President of Islington South and Finsbury Constituency Labour Party in London and was made a peer in April 1991. He is currently Chairman of the Trustees Board for Training for Life, Chairman of the Management Board of City Roads and on the Board of Tribune magazine.
K. Moti Gokulsing is Reader in Education and Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of East London. He is the author of a number of articles and books on Education and the Media including the following: Sociology a user friendly guide; Beyond Competence (co-authored); Usable Knowledges as the Goal of University Education (co-edited); and Indian Popular Cinema a narrative of cultural change (co-authored).
