Yazar: James Tooley

David Longfield is a researcher at the E. G. West Centre, Newcastle University, where his research focuses on education in post-conflict countries including South Sudan, Liberia and Sierra Leone. He studied for his first degree at Cambridge University followed a few years later by a PGCE at Newcastle University. He taught mathematics for fourteen years in south India, where he also held various senior management roles. Returning to the UK in 2005 he completed an MEd in International Development at Newcastle University. He co-authored with Professor Tooley the Pearson-published response to the DFID Rigorous Literature Review on low-cost private schools.