Peter Newsam

Peter Newsam

Sir Peter Newsam is an English educationist.

He was chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality from 1981 to 1985, and chief education officer for the Inner London Education Authority from 1975 to 1981. [ [http://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects/past-projects/meb/the-commission.html Runnymede Trust] ]

He was Director of the Institute of Education of the University of London from 1989 to 1994. The institute's library is named after him. [ [http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=8602 Institute of Education website] ]

He later served as Chief Schools Adjudicator from 1999 to 2002.

Newsam authored the biography of Alec Clegg in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101039986/ Biography of Alec Clegg] ] He served on the Runnymede Trust's Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. [ [http://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects/past-projects/meb/the-commission.html Runnymede Trust] ]

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