Adjunct Professor in Education. Research interests include the broad fields of politics of education, education policy and finance, history of education and comparative education. His research specialisations include public and private schools policy, higher education policy and the internationalisation of education. He has published a number of books on the role of the Federal Government in Australian education and comparing Australian and US education policy. His research has been published in national and international journals and encyclopaedias spanning the fields of politics, sociology, policy studies and educational and public administration. He has acted as a consultant to both the Western Australian and Federal Governments and is an active member of the American Association for Research in Education, the American Society for Higher Education, the (US) Politics of Education Association and the Australian Association for Research in Education (former President). Since 2002, he has spent 3-6 months per year consulting on and teaching in Asia - primarily in Malaysia, HK, Vietnam and Singapore. He is also Chair of the WA Minister for Education's Advisory Committee on the establishment of New Non-Government Schools.

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