Professor Dennis Hayes
Professor Dennis Hayes is highly influential in the sector. He taught in secondary schools, special schools and further education before moving into techer education.
He is Honorary Secretary of the Standing Committee for the Education and Training of Teachers (SCETT) and was the first president of the University and College Union in 2006/07. He founded the campaign group Academics for Academic Freedom in 2006, and edited and contributed to the 2009 special edition of the British Journal of Education Studies about academic freedom. In December 2010, he was a panellist in the 50th Doha Debate arguing for the motion: Education is worthless without freedom of speech. This was broadcast in January 2011 and was made available to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Dennis has been on the Editorial Board of the Times Higher Education magazine since its inception and writes and comments regularly on national educational issues. He is the joint author of the influential and controversial book The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education. In 2010, he was made a National Teaching Fellow, a major honour that is the British equivalent of a Carnegie Scholar. His recent work has examined issues in teaching and, in 2011, he edited a pamphlet for SCETT entitled In Defence of Teacher Education and was an editor and contributor to the SCETT book The Role of the Teacher Today.
