Plenary Session III
Responsive Education Systems and Skills for the Knowledge Economy
April 17, 16:30 – 18:30
Ken Mayhew,
Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Ken Mayhew is Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is also Director of SKOPE, an ESRC designated research centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance. Founded in 1998, it is a multi-disciplinary centre based in the Oxford Departments of Economics and Education and in Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences. Ken was educated at Oxford and LSE. After graduate school he joined Her Majesty’s Treasury before moving back to Oxford. In 1989 and 1990 he was Economic Director at the UK National Economic Development Office, and has worked as a consultant for many private and public sector organisations at home and abroad. His main research interests are in labour economics, human resource management and the economics of education and training. He is an editor of Oxford Economic Papers and of The Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
Andreas Schleicher
Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division of the OECD Directorate for Education
Since 2002 Andreas Schleicher is the Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division of the OECD Directorate for Education where he is rresponsible for the design, implementation, analysis and dissemination of OECD’s comparative assessment of the performance of education systems. Prior to that, Andreas Schleicher was Deputy Head of the Statistics and Indicators Division of the OECD Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. From 1994-1997 he worked as an analyst at the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). Andreas Schleicher worked at the International Association for Educational Achievement from 1989 to 1994 where he held positions as Director for analysis and International Co-ordinator for the IEA Reading Literacy Study. Prior to that he was the Director of the IEA Data Processing Centre. Andreas Schleicher was educated in Germany and Australia and received the degree Master of Science from the Department of Mathematics at Deakin University, Australia.
Hubert Ertl
Lecturer in Higher Education, Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University
Hubert Ertl is a University Lecturer in Higher Education at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of Linacre College. He is the course leader for the MSc degree in Higher Education and convenes the Department’s Higher Education and Professional Learning Research Group. His research interests include access to higher education, vocational education and training, EU educational policies, and the transfer processes between education and training and the world of work. He is Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) and also involved in research into the development of teachers’ competence at German vocational schools.
Professor David Hopkins
HSBC Chair in International Leadership
David Hopkins was recently appointed to the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, where he supports the work of iNet, the International arm of the Specialist Schools Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has also just been appointed a Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Professor of Education, Head of the School, and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. Before that again he was a Tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Education, a Secondary School teacher and Outward Bound Instructor. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. Before becoming a civil servant he outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, London: Routledge / Falmer. His new book Every School a Great School will be published by the Open University Press later this year.
Moderator: Michael Mertaugh
Lead Education Economist, World Bank
Michael Mertaugh is a Lead Education Economist in the World Bank’s Human Development Department for the Europe and Central Asia Region. During his twenty-five year career at the World Bank, he has worked on education policy analysis and projects in thirty countries in all regions of the world – most recently in the accession and transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. His publications include “Education and Training”, with Eric Hanushek, in Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Accession and Beyond, edited by Nicholas Barr, The World Bank, 2005, “Aging and Education”, in From Red to Gray: The “Third Transition” of Aging Populations in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, The World Bank, 2007; and “Education in Central Asia, with Particular Reference to the Kyrgyz Republic,” in The Challenge of Educartion in Central Asia, edited by Stephen P. Heyneman and Alan J. DeYoung, Information Age Publishing, 2004.