Prof Peter RibbinsLife Vice President
Peter Ribbins is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the University of Birmingham where he was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Continuing Studies. Before that he worked in a College of Higher Education, as a local government officer and secondary school teacher, and briefly in Industry. On retiring in 2004 from Birmingham he held part time professorships in Leicester, Lincoln, and Dublin City.
Shortly after its setting up in 1971 he became a member of BELMAS and spent some 20 years on its governing Council holding a variety of post including that of national chair and was for 12 years executive editor of its journal (He was also for 8 years Editor of Pastoral Care in Education and has edited special editions of 5 other journals). He was appointed Vice President of BELMAS and in 2006 awarded its DSA. He is a Fellow of CCEAM and has held the Onwell Fellowship of the University of Hong Kong.
He has researched on a variety of topics in education management, leadership, and policy in local and national government, including pastoral care and departmental management in schools, the careers service, improvement in education, professional development and training in schools and in the dental service. Given this the primary focus of his research and publication has been in the study of headteachers and headship at all school levels in the UK and in several other countries and of the lives and careers of secretaries of state and permanent secretaries at the DES. He has extensive experience as an adviser and consultant to schools and national authorities in the UK and elsewhere on the above and related themes. He has been a governor of two universities and five schools (two of which for 13 years as Chair). He was a member of the Panel for Education for the RAE that reported in 2008.
