Tom Schuller

Head of CERI

He also has specific responsibility for the activity on Measuring the Social Outcomes of Learning.  The project looks into the complex issue of how learning affects social outcomes, and specifically health and civic participation.

Tom Schuller has an MA from Oxford University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from London University and a Dr Phil from University of Bremen. Formerly Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London from 1999 to 2003, he has worked also at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Warwick, at the Institute for Community Studies and for four years at OECD in the 1970s.    

Recent publications

• Understanding the Social Outcomes of Learning (with Richard Desjardins)  CERI/OECD 2007
• Evidence in Education: Linking Research to Policy  (edited, with Tracey Burns)  CERI/OECD 2007
• The Benefits of Learning: The Impact of Education on Health, Family Life and Social Capital (with John Preston et al), RoutledgeFalmer 2004

Contact information

2, rue André Pascal
75775 Paris, Cedex 16

ceri.contact@oecd.org
Telephone : 33-1 45 24 92 78
Fax: 33-1 44 30 63 94

Office location:
Tour Europe, La Défense