Harry Judge

Harry George Judge
Born(1928-08-01)1 August 1928
Cardiff, Wales
Died2 April 2019(2019-04-02) (aged 90)
Oxford, England
EducationCardiff High School
Alma materBrasenose College, Oxford
University College London

Harry George Judge (1 August 1928 – 2 April 2019) was senior research fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.[1][2] He was director of the Department of Educational Studies from 1973 to 1988.[3] His 80th birthday was marked by the publication of a special volume of the Oxford Review of Education.[4] He was the honorary president of the Oxford Education Society.[5]

Born in Cardiff, after two years in the Royal Air Force he studied at Brasenose College, taking degrees in Modern History and in Theology.[6] While teaching in schools in London and Surrey he completed a Ph.D. in French history and in 1959 was invited to become director of studies at the St Katharine’s Foundation, Cumberland Lodge.[7] In 1962, he was appointed Headmaster of Banbury Grammar School and coordinated its merger with three other secondary schools to form Banbury School (now Wykham Park Academy), of which he became the first principal.[8]

While in Banbury, he was a member of the Public Schools Commissions[9][10] and in 1970 of the James Committee of Enquiry into Teacher Education.[11] In 1973, he was elected as director of the Oxford University Department of Educational Studies (later to be renamed the Department of Education) and a professorial fellow of Brasenose College.[4] His work at Oxford focused on building a research partnership extending across the university and on integrating the university role with that of local schools in the professional education of teachers.[12]

In the 1980s he chaired the BBC Schools Broadcasting Council and the Royal College of Nursing Commission on the education of nurses.[13] He completed for the Ford Foundation a report on graduate schools of education in the United States, and on his retirement from his Oxford appointments became professor of teacher education policy at Michigan State University, subsequently serving as a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford University.

  1. ^ "JUDGE, Harry George". Who's Who 2012. Oxford University Press. 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Dr Harry Judge: An Appreciation". News. Brasenose College, Oxford. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Dr Harry Judge". Department of Education, University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  4. ^ a b David, Phillips (June 2008). "Making a difference: Harry Judge, teacher education, the university, and the schools". Oxford Review of Education. 34 (3): 271–4. doi:10.1080/03054980802116816.
  5. ^ "Oxford Education Society: Your Committee". Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  6. ^ Roberts, James (18 April 2019). "OBITUARY: Dr Harry Judge, of Brasenose College and Banbury School". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  7. ^ Reeves, Marjorie (1999). Christian thinking and social order: conviction politics from the 1930s to the present day. London: Cassell. ISBN 0304702471.
  8. ^ Crossman, Richard (1975). The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister. Vol. 1. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0241891108.
  9. ^ Newsom, John (1968). The Public Schools Commission first report. London: HMSO. ISBN 0112700012.
  10. ^ Newsom, John (1970). The Public Schools Commission second report. London: HMSO. ISBN 0112701701.
  11. ^ James, Eric (1972). Teacher education and training. London: HMSO. ISBN 0112702368.
  12. ^ Benton, Peter (1990). The Oxford internship scheme : integration + partnership in initial teacher education. London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. ISBN 0903319535.
  13. ^ Commission on Nursing Education (1985). The education of nurses. London: Royal College of Nursing.