Alison Wolf

Alison Wolf ( born October 31, 1949) is a British economist. She is Professor of " Public Administration and Management" at King's College London.

Life

Alison Wolf studied, among others, at the University of Neuchâtel and has an MA and an MPhil from the University of Oxford. Her early career spent in the United States as a policy analyst for the government. She then worked for many years at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she is a visiting professor. She is in the Advisory Committee for Education of the House of Commons and Member of Council of the United Nations University. Wolf frequently writes articles in the British press and moderated a program on BBC Radio 4 Wolf is a member of the International Accounting Education Standards Board and worked as a consultant for, among others, the OECD, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Ministries of Education of New Zealand, France and South Africa, the European Commission and the bar Council.

Fields and Publications

Wolf is engaged in, among other things with the interface between educational institutions and labor markets. She also has a research interest in performance studies, mathematics education, education and training, tertiary education and the labor market of health care.

In her book Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth presents Wolf is a widespread view in question, higher public expenditure on education would boost economic growth. Instead, I tend to causality in the opposite direction, which may also explain the correlation between education and prosperity of a society. The modern mass attendance of universities stand no corresponding demand against in the labor market. For the individual had on the labor market primarily mathematical and linguistic skills crucial that are already being taught in school. Wolf recommends therefore, more likely to invest in the primary and secondary as in tertiary education.

Writings

  • The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society, Profile Books, 2013
  • Does Education Matter: Myths About Education and Economic Growth. Penguin, 2002.
  • Contemporary Sociological Theory: Expanding the Classical Tradition ( with Ruth A. Wallace ). Pearson, 6th Edition 2005
  • Convergence and Divergence in European Education and Training Systems ( with Green, A. and Leney, T. ). Institute of Education, 1999.

Awards

2012: Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE)

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