Prof David Phillips

Career: teacher: Huntingdon GS 1967-69, Chipping Norton Sch 1969-75; Univ of Oxford: tutor then lectr in educnl studies 1975-96, reader in comparative educn 1996-2000, prof of comparative educn 2000-12 (emeritus prof 2012-); fell St Edmund Hall Oxford 1984-2012 (emeritus fell 2012-), emeritus fell Leverhulme Tst 2012-; ed: Oxford Review of Educn 1984-2003, Research in Comparative and Int Educn 2006-; series ed Oxford Studies in Compatative Educn 1992-, chm Editorial Bd Comparative Educn 2009-; memb: Teacher Educn Cmmn Wissenschaftsrat 1990-91, Cncl German Inst for Int Educnl Research 1992-94 (memb Scientific Ctee 1992-98), Educnl Science Cmmn Miny of Science, Research and the Arts Germany 2003-04; chm Br Assoc for Int and Comparative Educn 1998-2000; FRSA 1987, AcSS 2002, FRHistS 2002

Books and Publications: incl: Zur Universitätsreform in der Britischen Besatzungszone 1945-1948 (1983), The Second Foreign Language: Past Development, Current Trends and Future Prospects (jtly, 1983), Diversification in Modern Language Teaching: Choice and the National Curriculum (jtly, 1993), Pragmatismus und Idealismus: Das 'Blaue Gutachten' und die Britische Hochschulpolitik in Deutschland 1948 (1995), Education in Germany: Tradition and Reform in Historical Context (ed, 1995), Education in Eastern Germany Since Unification (ed, 2000), Implementing European Union Education and Training Policy: A Comparative Study of Issues in Four Member States (jt ed, 2003), Educational Policy Borrowing: Historical Perspectives (jt ed, 2004), Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice (jtly, 2006), The German Example: English Interest in Educational Provision in Germany Since 1800 (2011); subject of Cross-national Attraction in Education: Accounts from England and Germany - A Festschrift for David Phillips (2006); author of numerous jl articles