VECO Online Guest: Tom Bentley
Learning Beyond the Classroom in the Creative Age
March 26-28, 2001

About Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley is Director of Demos, Britain's leading independent think tank.

A Demos researcher since 1995, in 1998 and 1999 he worked as a special adviser to David Blunkett, MP, British Secretary of State for Education and Employment. He returned to Demos to take up the Director's post in 1999.

He has been described as 'one of Britain's leading policy entrepreneurs' by the Australian Financial Review, and as 'one of four men who think for Britain' by the Financial Times. His work has been published in fourteen countries.

He was born and educated in the East End of London and studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford. He is 27 years old.

He is a trustee of the Roundhouse and the Community Action Network, and chairs the steering group of the Centres for Curiosity and Imagination project.

Publications include:

Learning Beyond the Classroom: education for a changing world, Routledge, 1998; described as 'one of the key education books of the decade' by the Times Educational Supplement;

The Creative Age: knowledge and skills for the new economy, with Kim Seltzer, Demos, published September 1999;

The Real Deal: what young people really think about government, politics and social exclusion, with Kate Oakley, Sian Gibson and Kylie Kilgour, Demos, published spring 1999;

Destination Unknown: engaging with the problems of marginalised youth, with Ravi Gurumurthy, Demos, published spring 1998;

Employee Mutuals: the 21st Century union? with Geoff Mulgan, Demos 1996;

Visit the DEMOS website at http://www.demos.co.uk

First published March 22, 2001. Last modified March 26, 2001.

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