Alison Wolf

Alison Wolf, 2009

Alison Margaret Wolf, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (born October 31, 1949 ) is a British economist . She is Professor of Public Administration and Management at King's College London and since 2014 a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Alison Wolf studied at the University of Neuchâtel and has an MA and an MPhil from the University of Oxford . She spent her early career in the United States as a government policy analyst. She then worked for many years at the Institute of Education at the University of London , where she is visiting professor . She is on the House of Commons Education Advisory Committee and a member of the United Nations University Council . Wolf is a frequent contributor to the UK press and hosts a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 . Wolf is a member of the International Accounting Education Standards Board and has worked as an advisor to 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, among others .

She is married to the Financial Times chief commentator Martin Wolf .

Focuses and publications

Among other things, Wolf deals 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 health care labor market .

In her book Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth , Wolf challenges the widespread belief that higher public spending on education will fuel economic growth . Instead, causality tends to run in the opposite direction, which can also explain the correlation between education and wealth in a society. The modern mass attendance at universities is not offset by a corresponding demand on the labor market. For the individual, mathematical and linguistic skills, which are already imparted in school, are primarily decisive in the labor market. Wolf therefore recommends investing in primary and secondary rather than tertiary education.

House of Lords

On December 2, 2014, she was raised to Life Peeress with the title Baroness Wolf of Dulwich , of Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark and took the associated seat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher .

Fonts

• The XX Factor: How Working Women are Creating a New Society , Profile Books, 2013
• Improving Literacy at Work (with Karen Evans). Routledge 2011
• Improving skills at work (with Karen Evans). Routledge, 2010.
• An Adult Approach to Further Education: How to Reverse the Destruction of Adult and Vocational Education. Institute of Economic Affairs , 2009.
• 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)

Web links

• Wolf's personal website at King's College
• Entry on the website of the British Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf - review. In The Guardian , April 26, 2013
2. ↑ Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 2012, on: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/announcements/21522/queens-birthday-honours-2012.aspx  ( page not more available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.