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Education

•   Master’s degree from Oxford University
•  Post-graduate certificate in education from the University of London
• Ph.D. from Bremen University in Germany  

Employment

• Worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Warwick, at the Institute for Community Studies and for four years at OECD in 1970.
• 1999-2003   Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London, also co-director of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning.
• 2003-2008 Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, Paris. 
•  2008-2010 he directed the independent Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, sponsored by the UK’s National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education
• Professor Tom Schuller is currently director of Longview, a UK think-tank promoting the value of longitudinal and life course research

Awards and Honors

Membership-Professional Organizations

• UK Academy of Social Sciences.
• Adult Education International Hall of Fame.
• Chair, Governing Board, Working Men’s College (London) - Europe's oldest continuous adult education college.

Publications

• Understanding the Social Outcomes of Learning (with Richard Desjardins, OECD 2007)
• The Paula Principle book.
• Evidence in Education: Linking Research and Policy (edited, with Tracey Burns, OECD 2007)
• The Benefits of Learning: The Impact of Education on Health, Family Life and Social Capital (with John Preston et al, RoutledgeFalmer 2004)
• International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning (edited with David Istance and Hans Schuetze, Open University Press 2002).
• Social Capital: Critical Perspectives (edited with Stephen Baron and John Field, OUP 2000) Part-time Higher Education in Scotland (with David Raffe and others, Jessica Kingsley 1998)
• Life After Work (with Michael Young, HarperCollins 1991).

Professional Interest Areas

• Life course analysis, including empirical, applied and theoretical work
•  Social capital and its application to educational policy and practice
• Lifelong learning generally

Major Contributions to Adult Education

• Teaching some coerces related to lifelong learning.
•  Publishing some books and articles in adult education and lifelong learning.

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References

Pascal International Exchanges: related from 

http://pie.pascalobservatory.org/users/tom-schuller

International Dialogue Education

http://id-e-berlin.de/tom-schuller

International Adult and Continuing Education

http://www.halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/2006-European/schuller.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXJsjoVBp7Y

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/9987734/The-Paula-Principle-why-women-arent-getting-ahead-at-work.html