Professor Robin Alexander

Robin Alexander taught in schools and colleges in England before moving to the University of Leeds in 1977 where in 1990 he became Professor of Education and Associate Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Education. In 1995 he moved to Warwick University as Professor of Education, founder Director of the Centre for Research in Elementary and Primary Education and Director of Research at Warwick Institute of Education.

Since 2001 he has been based at the University of Cambridge where he was elected Visiting Fellow of Hughes Hall and then Fellow of Wolfson College. He is based at Cambridge’s Faculty of Education but retains his links with Warwick as Professor Emeritus. He is a member of the Centre for International Comparative Studies at Bristol University Graduate School of Education. In 2005 he was elected to the Sir Edward Youde Visiting Professorship at Hong Kong Institute of Education and became the President of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) 2008-9.

He directed The Primary Review, an independent enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England. The Review, which is the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education since the Plowden Report of 1967, is examining the current condition and future prospects of England’s public system of
primary education.