Maria Slowey

Maria Slowey is Professor and Director of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Glasgow. Her research is in the areas of adult and higher education and lifelong learning. She plays an active national role including membership of the Cubie Committee on the Student Finance, SHEFC and HEFCE Committees, and the ESRC Research Priorities Board. At an international level she has acted as consultant to OECD, the EC, the Council of Europe, and the ETF. David Watson has been Vice Chancellor...See more

Maria Slowey is Professor and Director of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Glasgow. Her research is in the areas of adult and higher education and lifelong learning. She plays an active national role including membership of the Cubie Committee on the Student Finance, SHEFC and HEFCE Committees, and the ESRC Research Priorities Board. At an international level she has acted as consultant to OECD, the EC, the Council of Europe, and the ETF. David Watson has been Vice Chancellor of the University of Brighton since 1990 where he is also Professor of the History of Ideas. He has contributed widely to developments in UK higher education, as a member of the CNAA, PCFC, HEFCE and the Dearing Committee of Inquiry. His academic interests are in the history of American ideas and in higher education policy, on which he has published extensively. See less