Professor Ewart Keep

Ewart Keep holds an (emeritus) Chair in Education, Training and Skills at the Department of Education, Oxford University.

Ewart has researched and written on the links between skills and economic performance; the interaction  between economic development, business support, innovation and education and training; the workplace as a learning environment; and adult and lifelong learning.

He has advised the UK government departments, parliamentary committees at Holyrood and Westminster, the OCED and the governments of Australia and New Zealand.

Ewart’s reappointment runs from 4 November 2023 to 3 November 2026.

Register of interests

1. Remuneration

Chair of the Education and Training Foundation’s T Levels Professional Development External Assurance Group, which provides academic/research advice to the ETF’s major programme of professional development and training to support the introduction of T levels.

2. Other roles

Member of the ESRC Project Advisory Panel for Young Lives, Young Futures project’, Kings College London.

Member of the Management Board of City of Glasgow College.

Academic member of the ESRC Productivity Institute.

Current member of the OECD PISA VET (UK) Extended Expert Group.

Member of the UK Government Department for Education, Skills England Advisory Group.

3. Contracts

Nil.

4. Houses, Land and Buildings

Nil.

5. Interest in shares and securities

Nil.

6. Gifts and Hospitality

Nil.

7. Non-financial interests

Professor (emeritus) in Education, Training and Skills, Department of Education, Oxford University.
Associate Fellow at the Institute of Employment Research, University of Warwick.
Associate Fellow of the Centre on Skills, Knowledge & Organisational Performance, Oxford University.
Honorary Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute.
Associate Fellow of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Referee for the Economic and Social Research Council.
Member (retired staff section) of Universities and College Union (UCU).

8. Close family members

Nil.