Sir George Peter Scott
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(born 1 August 1946) is a British educationalist and the former
Vice-Chancellor
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In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...
of
Kingston University
, mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress"
, established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute
, type = Public
, endowment = £2.3 m (2015)
, ...
in
Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames (hyphenated until 1965, colloquially known as Kingston) is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, England. It is situated on the River Thames and southwest of Charing Cross. It is notable as ...
in southwest London.
Life and career
Scott studied modern history as an undergraduate at
Merton College, Oxford
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and was a visiting scholar and at the
University of California, Berkeley
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Graduate School of Public Policy under a
Harkness Fellowship
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. He then worked as a
leader
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writer for ''
The Times
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'',
Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont in 1858. It became a university in 1992, and was renamed after John Ruskin in ...
(1998)
Citation: Professor Sir Peter Scott Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, 1998
/ref> and began writing for the ''Times Higher Education Supplement
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
'' 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
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
and Director the university's Centre for Policy Studies in Education.["Ex-editor to take over at Kingston"]
''Times Higher Education'', 21 February 1997 He also served as the university's Pro Vice-Chancellor from 1995 to 1997. He concurrently served on the Lord Chancellor
The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The ...
'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
Johan van Zyl Steyn, Baron Steyn, PC (15 August 1932 – 28 November 2017) was a South African-British judge, until September 2005 a Law Lord. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Early life and education
Steyn was born in Stellen ...
and the appointment of Lord Nicholls
Donald James Nicholls, Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, (25 January 1933 – 25 September 2019) was a British barrister who became a Law Lord (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).
Biography
Nicholls was educated at Birkenhead School, before reading ...
, both Law Lords).
Scott was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University
, mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress"
, established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute
, type = Public
, endowment = £2.3 m (2015)
, ...
in 1997 and took up his post there in January of the following year.
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. In May of that same year the World Intellectual Property Organization
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rejected a complaint by Scott that an internet domain name
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—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. The lecturer was subsequently convicted of harassing Scott via the website; the conviction was later set aside, and he was acquitted in a re-trial.
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
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is the education school 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 m ...
, University of London.[Kingston University]
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
He also writes on educational issues for ''The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
''.
Honours
Peter Scott was knighted
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in 2007 for "services to education". He is a member of Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
and the Academy of Social Sciences
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, and has received the following honorary degrees:
* Doctor of Laws (University of Bath
(Virgil, Georgics II)
, mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind
, established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
, 1992)[University of Bath]
Honorary Graduates 1989 to present
/ref>
* Doctor of Letters (Council for National Academic Awards
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Background
The establishment followed the recommendation of the UK government Com ...
, at its last awards ceremony)
* Doctor of Philosophy (Anglia Polytechnic University, now Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont in 1858. It became a university in 1992, and was renamed after John Ruskin in ...
)
* Doctor of Letters (Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan USA)
References
External links
Works by Peter Scott
on WorldCat
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1946 births
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
British educational theorists
Living people
People associated with Kingston University
Knights Bachelor
Members of Academia Europaea
Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
The Times journalists
Academics of the University of Leeds
Academics of the UCL Institute of Education