The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

My mother, Irene Schwab, was an archaeologist, academic and teacher who was committed to radical leftwing projects. Born in Colindale, north London, she was the middle child of Mia (nee Hirschberg) and Peter Schwab, Jewish refugees who fled Germany in the 1930s and became co-directors of a small costume jewellery business in London.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 1, 2023

My fellow medievalist Christopher Allmand, who has died aged 86, was a historian of the hundred years war, especially during and after the reign of Henry V, to which Christopher devoted a major study in 1992.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

My friend and former colleague Anthony Dyson, who has died at the age of 91, was an artist, master printer, art historian and teacher. He acquired and applied an extraordinary range of skills and depth of knowledge that spanned the disciplines of art and education.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

My friend and teacher Kenneth Fowler, who has died aged 88, was an eminent historian of the hundred years war, and a leading light in the teaching of history over more than three decades at Edinburgh University.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2022

My friend and former colleague Len Moore, who has died aged 89, was an industrial scientist turned academic who worked to create wider access to higher education. Born in Derby, he was the son of Leonard, a school caretaker, and Ethel Moore, a homemaker.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

My friend David Browning, who has died aged 83, was a dockworker for 15 years before becoming an academic and passionate advocate of informal adult education, working with local communities.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2023

My friend and fellow campaigner Jan Hardy, who has died aged 77, was a committed anti-racist campaigner who became the county adviser for multicultural education in Hertfordshire local authority and a co-founder of the Anti-Racist Teacher Education Network.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

My former tutor John Bramble, who has died aged 78, was one of a group of Latinists who, between the late 1960s and 80s, used new critical approaches to rejuvenate the study of ancient Latin texts.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

My wife, Beverly Sand, who has died aged 76, will be remembered as a committed and fiercely intelligent advocate for widening access to learning opportunities for those failed by their earlier experiences of the education system.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

My father, Tom Markus, who has died aged 95 , was the first professor of building science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he established a thriving research base and, inspired by his socialist politics and Catholic faith, made huge efforts to address housing problems in the city.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

My brother Nicholas David, who has died aged 85, was a leading figure in the field of ethnoarchaeology who undertook important research in west Africa and became professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of Calgary. Long after he retired in 2002 Nic continued to receive funding to carry out his research.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

My friend and colleague John Bynner, who has died aged 85, was a social scientist who championed Britain’s birth cohort studies and had a mission to put the evidence to the greater good. John believed that data should inform policy to help people who are disadvantaged.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

My mother, Brenda Almond, who has died aged 85, was a philosopher, author and ethicist. She was born into a poor, working-class family in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

O” had previously served as the fourth president of Tompkins Cortland Community College for four years in Dryden, New York, according to her obituary. A Kingston, Jamaica native who was the youngest of six siblings, “Dr. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured.

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College for Creative Study

MAY 15, 2023

Obituary: Al, a proud first-generation Italian American from simple roots, was born in the small paper mill town of Livermore Falls, Maine on April 22,1940. “CCS is indebted to Al for his immense wisdom, strategic insight, and support over the years,” said Don Tuski, CCS President. “I I am incredibly saddened by his loss.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In the couple of months since I wrote that obituary, the Register-Guard has been reduced to a skeletal staff. The paper could draw on the resources of the UO student body and faculty. Such an experiment, I wagered, would gain support from the public served and from the business community.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Co-creator of an Open University course that had a profound effect on the study of design history in Britain Charlotte Benton, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was one of a handful of pioneers who helped shape design history as a discrete discipline in the 1970s and 80s, initially in collaboration with her husband, Tim.

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Architecture Higher Education Education 46

The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Political scientist whose radical writing and professorship at Essex University transformed the study of government Jean Blondel, who has died aged 93, was one of the founding fathers of modern political science.

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