Biographical Information
Tom Schuller, MA, PGCE, Dr.Phil
Employment history
Tom Schuller is Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, Paris. Formerly Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London from 1999 to 2003. He has worked also at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Warwick, at the Institute for Community Studies and for four years at OECD in Paris in the 1970s. He has been an adviser to government on numerous issues, especially on lifelong learning. He is currently a member of the French Prime Minister’s Commission du Débat national sur l’avenir de l’école.
Recent publications
The Benefits of Learning: The Impact of Education on Health, Family Life and Social Capital (with John Preston et al, Routledge 2003).
International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning (edited with David Istance and Hans Schutze, Open University Press 2002).
Social Capital: Critical Perspectives (edited with Stephen Baron and John Field, OUP 2000).
Modelling and Measuring the Wider Benefits of Learning (with J. Bynner et al, London: Institute of Education 2001).
Part-time Higher Education in Scotland (with David Raffe and others, Jessica Kingsley 1998).
Life After Work (with Michael Young, HarperCollins 1991).