About Paul

Consultant and researcher with specialist expertise on education, training and human resources development issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.

For the last forty years, I have been working as an education economist undertaking research and consultancy assignments across a wide range of education, vocational training and other human resources development issues mainly in sub-Saharan Africa.

The main purpose of this website is to disseminate the findings of my current and past research to as wide an audience as possible and to stimulate discussion and debate around key issues concerning education policy and practice in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

My first four blogs cover a diverse range of topics namely the medium-longer term impact of the COVID epidemic on schooling in Africa, the short-term impact of the epidemic on transnational higher education in the United Kingdom, private schooling provision in Sub-Saharan Africa and a review of the Mastercard Foundation report on secondary education in Africa.

Qualifications

1982 D.Phil., Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Thesis title: The formation of engineering labour markets in Kenya 1918-1980

1977 M.A., Sussex University, Development Economics

1975 B.A., York University, Economics and Politics, Upper Second

Employment history

May 1998-Senior Partner, Knowledge and Skills for Development, Brighton.

Aug ‘09- Nov ‘10 Senior Research Fellow, UK Department for International Development (part-time).

June1994-Apr 1998 Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University
of Sussex.

Oct 1993-Apr 1994 Director, Rural Policy and Research Course, Institute of
Development Studies at Sussex University, Brighton.

Nov 1991-Nov 1992 Senior Research Officer, Education Policy Unit, University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sept1989-Sept1991 Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of
Zimbabwe

1983-1988 Research Officer, International Service for National
Agricultural Research (ISNAR), The Hague, Netherlands

Jan 1980-June1981 Visiting Research Associate, Institute for Development
Studies, Nairobi University, Kenya

Nov 1977-Sept1979 Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Aug 1971-Sept1972 Cadet Volunteer, Voluntary Service Overseas