James Tooley

James Tooley is Vice-Chancellor at the University of Buckingham and professor of educational entrepreneurship and policy. He was professor of education policy at Newcastle University for two decades and was previously an academic at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. His groundbreaking research on low-cost private education has won numerous awards, including gold prize in the first International Finance Corporation/Financial Times Private Sector Development Competition, a Templeton...See more

James Tooley is Vice-Chancellor at the University of Buckingham and professor of educational entrepreneurship and policy. He was professor of education policy at Newcastle University for two decades and was previously an academic at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. His groundbreaking research on low-cost private education has won numerous awards, including gold prize in the first International Finance Corporation/Financial Times Private Sector Development Competition, a Templeton Prize for Free Market Solutions to Poverty, and the National Free Enterprise Award from the Institute of Economic Affairs, London. The views expressed in this monograph are personal and do not reflect Buckingham's policy or practices. See less