Barry Sheerman MP
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Speaker Topics
- Select Committee System
- Policy
- Motivation
- Ministerial Accountabilty
- Leadership
- Governers' Responsibilities
- Education without failure
- Education Policy
- Critical Analysis of research and political strategy
- Charitable fund raising
- Change
Introduction
Barry Sheerman has recently celebrated his 30th Anniversary as the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Huddersfield.
Former Shadow Minister for Education and Employment. Shadow Minister of State for Home Affairs and Disability Rights.
Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee for Children, Schools and Families Committee from 2007and the Education and Skills Committee from 2001 - 2007, he has extensive experience in educational issues and has played a key role in education policy and debates.
His interests also include economic affairs, environmental sustainability, social entrepreneurship and poetry.
Mr Sheerman is an energetic social and political entrepreneur having initiated over 40 different social enterprises over the past 20 years. He is currently actively involved in Policy Connect (which runs a number of policy forums and parliamentary groups), the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety, Urban Mines (an environmental charity), and the John Clare Education and Environment Trust, all of which he helped establish.
Current Positions Held
MP for Huddersfield.
Chair of the House of Commons Children Schools and Families Committee
Chair of Policy Connect
Chair The John Clare Trust
Chair The Skills Commission
Chair of the National Educational Research and Development Trust
Chair Urban Mines
Trustee of the National Children’s Centre
Chair Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety
Personal Achievements and Awards
Visiting Professor in Social Enterprise – University of Huddersfield
Fellow City and Guilds
Honorary Doctorates: Kingston, Bradford, Arcadia (USA)
Publication: Harold Laski biography “A Life on the Left” with Professor Isaac Kramnick (Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1993)
Relevant Career and Professional Background
1983 – Present - Member of Parliament for Huddersfield.
1979 – 83 – Member of Parliament for Huddersfield East
1966 – 1979 – Lecturer University of Wales, Swansea
1967 – Graduated from the London School of Economics MSc Political Sociology
1966 - BSc Economics
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