Tim Oates

Chair of TCC Advisory Group, Assessment and international frameworks

Tel: 020 3667 7881

Tim chaired the Department for Education’s recent review of the National Curriculum. 

In May 2006 Tim joined Cambridge Assessment to spearhead the rapidly growing Assessment Research and Development Division. He was previously at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), where he had been Head of Research and Statistics for most of the last decade.

Tim has produced work which commands national and international respect, including advising on a pan-European 8-level qualifications framework. He has advised the UK Government for many years on both practical matters and assessment policy, and is particularly experienced in international use of core knowledge curricula.

He started his career as a research officer at the University of Surrey. He moved to the FE Staff College in 1987 where he helped run the Work-Based Learning project. London University's Institute of Education then appointed him as NCVQ Research Fellow. In 1993 he joined one of the QCA's predecessor bodies, the National Council for Vocational Qualifications, as Head of GNVQ Research and Development. Promotion to Director of Research followed two years later.

Tim is also a visiting Professor at Leeds University's School of Education.

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