Tim Oates
Director of Assessment Research and Development
Cambridge Assessment
Tim Oates is Group Director of Assessment Research and Development at Cambridge Assessment, focussing on national and international research on assessment and measurement. More recently, he has undertaken wide-ranging international comparison of the performance of education systems, and advised OECD on its curriculum review work. In 2010 he published ‘Could do better’ which laid down the principles for the review of the National Curriculum in England. From 2010-2013, he was chair of the Expert Panel for Review of the National Curriculum. He has published widely on assessment and curriculum. He was a member of the Ofqual Vocational Standards Advisory Group. Tim routinely provides briefings and advice to UK and other governments. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. In 2015 he was awarded a CBE for services to education.
“Some may say that the future of education may be ‘an unknown land…’ but our actions today certainly will play a major part in forming it. But which models, which directions, which assumptions …? The future’s inevitable in one aspect only … it WILL come. The SHAPE conference is essential to the process of ensuring that the future is shaped and evidence-based, not unpredictable and unfortunate.”