Harry Judge

Who is Harry Judge?

Harry George Judge is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He was Director of the Department of Educational Studies from 1973 to 1988. His 80th birthday was marked by the publication of a special volume of the Oxford Review of Education. He is the Honorary President of the Oxford Education Society.

Born in Cardiff, after two years in the Royal Air Force he studied at Brasenose College, taking degrees in Modern History and in Theology. While teaching in schools in London and Surrey he complected a Ph.D in French history and in 1959 was invited to become Director of Studies at the St Katharine’s Foundation, Cumberland Lodge. In 1962 he was appointed Headmaster of Banbury Grammar School and coordinated its merger with three other secondary schools to form Banbury School, of which he became the first Principal.

While in Banbury, he was a member of the Public Schools Commissions and in 1970 of the James Committee of Enquiry into Teacher Education. In 1973 he was elected as Director of the Oxford University Department of Educational Studies and a Professorial Fellow of Brasenose College. His work at Oxford focused on building a research partnership extending across the University and on integrating the university role with that of local schools in the professional education of teachers.