New Labour was a period in the history of the British Labour Party from the mid to late 1990s until 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The name dates from a conference slogan first used by the party in 1994,later seen in a draft manifesto which was published in 1996 and titled New Labour,New Life for Britain. It was presented as the brand of a newly reformed party that had altered Clause IV and endorsed market economics. The branding was extensively used while the party was in government between 1997 and 2010. New Labour was influenced by the political thinking of Anthony Crosland and the leadership of Blair and Brown as well as Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell's media campaigning. The political philosophy of New Labour was influenced by the party's development of Anthony Giddens' Third Way which attempted to provide a synthesis between capitalism and socialism. The party emphasised the importance of social justice,rather than equality,emphasising the need for equality of opportunity and believed in the use of markets to deliver economic efficiency and social justice.
Carl Edwin Wieman is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University,and currently the A.D White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995,while at the University of Colorado Boulder,he and Eric Allin Cornell produced the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) and,in 2001,they and Wolfgang Ketterle were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wieman currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and Professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education,as well as the DRC Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering. In 2020,Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize in Education Research for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education." citation.
Mixed-sex education,also known as mixed-gender education,co-education,or coeducation,is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to the 19th century,mixed-sex education has since become standard in many cultures,particularly in Western countries. Single-sex education remains prevalent in many Muslim countries. The relative merits of both systems have been the subject of debate.
The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) is the faculty of education and society of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to merging with UCL in 2014,it was a constituent college of the University of London. The IOE is ranked first in the world for education in the QS World University Rankings,and has been so every year since 2014.
The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit private university in Buckingham,England and the oldest of the country's six private universities. It was founded as the University College at Buckingham (UCB) in 1973,admitting its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.
Sir Anthony Francis Seldon is a British educator and contemporary historian. As an author,he is known in part for his political biographies of consecutive British Prime Ministers,John Major,Tony Blair,Gordon Brown,David Cameron,Theresa May and Boris Johnson. He was the 13th master (headmaster) of Wellington College,one of Britain's co-educational independent boarding schools. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham from 2015 to 2020,when he was succeeded by James Tooley. In 2009,he set up The Wellington Academy,the first state school to carry the name of its founding independent school. Before that,he was head of Brighton College.
Peter Snowdon is a contemporary historian and journalist.
Lewis Richard Benjamin Elton was a German-born British physicist and researcher into education,specialising in higher education.
David Stanley Hill is a British Marxist politician,academic and educational activist. He is Research Professor (Emeritus) in Education at Anglia Ruskin University,Chelmsford,England,and also Visiting Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,Greece,and in the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University,London. He was an elected Labour Party councillor for East Sussex County Council and Brighton Borough Council in the 1970s and 1980s and has been a candidate in thirteen local,national and European elections since 1972,most recently as Parliamentary Candidate in Hove and Portslade in the 2015 general election for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). In Britain he is currently a member of the Labour Left Alliance and Anti-Capitalist Resistance,the British section of and the Fourth International.
Sir Leslie Harold Martin,was an Australian physicist. He was one of the 24 Founding Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science and had a significant influence on the structure of higher education in Australia as chairman of the Australian Universities Commission from 1959 until 1966. He was Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne from 1945 to 1959,and Dean of the Faculty of Military Studies and Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales at the Royal Military College,Duntroon,in Canberra from 1967 to 1970. He was the Defence Scientific Adviser and chairman of the Defence Research and Development Policy Committee from 1948 to 1968,and a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission from 1958 to 1968. In this role he was an official observer at several British nuclear weapons tests in Australia.
James Nicholas Tooley is a professor of educational entrepreneurship and of education policy at the University of Buckingham. In July 2020 Tooley was appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham,succeeding Sir Anthony Seldon from 1 October 2020.
Sir Clifford Charles Butler FRS was an English physicist,best known for the discovery of the hyperon and meson types of particles. In later life,Butler was involved in educational policy,serving as director of the Nuffield Foundation and vice-chancellor of Loughborough University.
W. Bryan Dockrell (1929–2010) was a Scottish education researcher,with degrees from the University of Manchester,Trinity College Dublin,Edinburgh University and the University of Chicago. He made an important contribution to the development of British Educational Research particularly through his time as Director of the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) from 1971 to 1986. Prior to his time at SCRE Bryan worked in England,Canada and the USA
John Maxwell Irvine was a British theoretical physicist and university administrator,who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the Aberdeen.
Professor Sir Chris Husbands is a British academic,educationist,university leader and public servant,who has been Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University since January 2016.
Nicholas Piers Huxley Hillman is an English higher education policy adviser,previously a school history teacher and special adviser for the Conservatives. He has been the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute since 2014.
Julia Clare Buckingham is a British pharmacologist,academic and academic administrator. She is the former Vice Chancellor of Brunel University London,UK.
Professor Paul Black is an educational researcher,physicist and a current Professor Emeritus at King's College London. Black was previously Professor of Science Education and Director of the Centre for Science and Mathematics Education at the Chelsea College of Science and Technology and Head for Educational Studies at King's College London. He is a former Chair for the Task Group on Assessment and Testing and Deputy Chair of the National Curriculum Council,and is recognised as an architect of the national curriculum testing regime and the national curriculum for Science.
Conor Ryan is an Irish-born UK-based independent writer and consultant,a former senior civil servant,and adviser who has been until June 2023 the Director of External Relations at the Office for Students,a non-departmental public body of the British Department for Education. He served as a special adviser and the senior education adviser to British Secretary of State for Education and Employment David Blunkett from 1997 to 2001 and then to British Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2005 to 2007.
