Geoffrey Price Thomas

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(born 3 July 1941) was

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, and Director of

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until 2008. He was educated at Maesteg Grammar School, University of Wales (Swansea) (

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, (First Class Honours, Physics)) and

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( PhD). He is also a

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of the

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. Following one year as a research associate at the

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at the

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(1966–67), he became a Staff Tutor at University College of Swansea (1967–78). In 1978 he moved to the

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and Deputy Director of the Department of External Studies. In 1986 he became Director of Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He remained a

of Linacre until 1990, when he became the first President of

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and an

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of Linacre. He has been a visiting scholar at the

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, and

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. In 2002, he delivered the Louise McBee Lecture at the

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. He was a member of the

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from 2000-2008, and has been a member of the Council of the

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, a member of the Universities Association for Continuing Education, and a member of the

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Committee of Inquiry on the

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. Since 2002 he has been a member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. He has been a Governor of the

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, and a Council member of both the

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and the

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(Chair 2010-2014) He is Chairman of Global Teacher Education Inc., the U.S. based foundation for promoting international education. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and was awarded an Honorary DSc by the

Books

*Frank Barnaby and Geoffrey Thomas, eds, ''The nuclear arms race — control or catastrophe?: proceedings of the General Section of the

1981'' (London: Pinter, 1982). * Sir Douglas Black and G. P. Thomas, eds, ''Providing for the health services: proceedings of Section X (General) of the

139th annual meeting, 1977'' (London: Croom Helm, 1978). *Bruce Davies and Geoffrey Thomas, eds, ''Science and sporting performance: management or manipulation?'' (Oxford:

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, 1982).

Sources and further information

Terrence Nowlin, 'Kellogg College president will deliver annual McBee Lecture', ''Columns'' (18 November 2002)
*''Debrett's People of Today'' (12th edn, London:

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, 1999), pp. 1931–2

References

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