Peter Scott (educationalist)
Sir Peter Scott (born 1946)[1] is a British educationalist and the former Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University in Kingston upon Thames in southwest London.
Life and career
Scott studied modern history as an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford and was a visiting scholar and at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Public Policy under a Harkness Fellowship.[2] He then worked as a leader writer for The Times,[3] and began writing for the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1971. He went on to serve as its editor from 1976 until 1992 when he was appointed Professor of Education at the University of Leeds and Director the university's Centre for Policy Studies in Education.[4] He also served as the university's Pro Vice-Chancellor from 1995 to 1997. He concurrently served on the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct from 1994 to 2000, and later was the Vice-Chairman (and acting Chairman during the interregnum between the resignation of Lord Steyn and the appointment of Lord Nicholls, both Law Lords).[5][4]
Scott was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University in 1997 and took up his post there in January of the following year.[6] He holds strong views about the need for administrators rather than academics to govern the activities of universities, calling administrators the "key profession" in higher education in his April 2009 speech to the annual conference of the Association of University Administrators.[7] In May of that same year the World Intellectual Property Organisation rejected a complaint by Scott that an internet domain name—sirpeterscott.com—registered by a former Kingston University lecturer constituted a trademark owned by him (Scott) and that the lecturer did not have the right to use it.[8][9] The lecturer was subsequently convicted of harassing Scott via the website;[10] the conviction was later set aside, and he was acquitted in a re-trial.[11][12]
Scott stepped down as Vice-Chancellor of Kingston at the end of 2010 (six months before he was due to retire) to become Professor of Higher Education Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London.[13][5] He also writes on educational issues for The Guardian.[14]
Honours
Peter Scott was knighted in 2007 for "services to education".[15] He has received the following honorary degrees:
Publications
In addition to his articles for the Times Higher Education Supplement and The Guardian, Scott's academic publications include:[17]
- Books
- Strategies for Postsecondary Education, London: Croom Helm, 1975
- The Crisis of the University, London: Croom Helm, 1984
- Knowledge and Nation, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990
- The Meanings of Mass Higher Education, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995
- Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty (with Helga Nowotny and Michael Gibbons), Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001
- Edited books
- The Globalization of Higher Education, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1998
- Higher Education Re-formed, London: Falmer Press, 2000
- Journal articles and chapters in edited collections
- "Excellence and Uncertainty: the future of Oxford", Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1982
- "The State of the Academic Profession in Britain", European Journal of Education, Volume 18, Number 3, 1983
- "Autonomy to Accountability" in A Degree of Choice? Higher Education and the Right to Learn, eds. Janet Finch and Michael Rustin, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986
- "Higher Education" in Education - The Wasted Years? 1973-86, ed. Max Morris and Clive Griggs, Brighton: Falmer Press, 1988
- "The Idea of a University in the 21st Century: a British Perspective", British Journal of Educational Studies, volume XXXX1, Number 1, March 1993
- "The Idea of the University in the 21st Century: a British perspectice", in The Learning Society: challenges and trends, eds. Peter Raggatt, Richard Edwards and Nick Small, London: Routledge, 1995
- "The Crisis of Knowledge and the Massification of Higher Education", in The End of Knowledge in Higher Education, ed. Ronald Barnett and Anne Griffin, London: Cassell, 1997
- "Ethics 'in' and 'for' Higher Education", Higher Education in Europe, Volume XXIX, Number 4, 439-450, December 2004
- "On the Margins or Moving into the Mainstream? Higher Education in Further Education in England", Higher Education Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 4, 402-418, 2009
References
- ^ George, Martin (2 June 2010). "Sir Peter Scott to retire from Kingston University six months early". Kingston Guardian
- ^ Higher Education Policy Institute. Professor Sir Peter Scott
- ^ a b Anglia Ruskin University (1998). Citation: Professor Sir Peter Scott Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, 1998
- ^ a b "Ex-editor to take over at Kingston", Times Higher Education, 21 February 1997
- ^ a b Kingston University, Office of the Vice-Chancellor
- ^ "Ed-editor to take over at Kingston", Times Higher Education, 21 February 1997
- ^ John Gill, "Move over dons, administrators now rule, says v-c", Times Higher Education, 9 April 2009
- ^ Melanie Newman, "Not in my name: VC loses fight for his domain", Times Higher Education, 14 May 2009
- ^ WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (1 May 2009). Administrative Panel Decision, Sir Peter Scott v. Dr. Howard Fredrics, Case No. D2009-0276
- ^ Melanie Newman, "Academic to argue that conviction was unlawful". Times Higher Education, 9 March 2010
- ^ Melanie Newman, "Fresh twist in Fredrics v Scott case", Times Higher Education, 26 April 2010
- ^ "Fredrics cleared of harassment charge", Times Higher Education, 23 July 2010
- ^ Simon Baker, "Kingston v-c to step down in December", Times Higher Education, 28 May 2010
- ^ The Guardian. Profile: Peter Scott
- ^ "New year honours awards handed to special people", Wimbledon Guardian, 4 January 2007
- ^ University of Bath. Honorary Graduates 1989 to present
- ^ For a full List, see Institute of Education. Peter Scott: Publications
External links
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