Ken Mayhew is the Founding Director of SKOPE and Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance at the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, and Extraordinary Professor at Maastricht University. He is also a Director of the Centre for Tutorial Teaching
He is a labour economist and has published widely in this area. His research interests include: the economics of education, with particular emphasis on higher education; human resource management; the measurement and the meaning of skill; skills and productivity; inequality with special emphasis on regions.
Currently, he is working on: skills, productivity and economic performance; the distributional outcomes of the expansion of higher education and its impact on vocational training; alternative pathways from school into the labour market; the alleged polarisation of the UK labour market and the implications for education and training; left-behind regions
Ken is a member of the Expert Group for CEDEFOP’s Training and Learning Survey and of Bright Blue’s Commission on the Welfare System after COVID 19. Until recently he was a member of the UK Armed Forces Pay Review Body and the Department for Education’s Skills and Productivity Board. He has advised many UK government departments including DfES, BEIS, DEFRA, foreign governments, and the European Commission, as well as several skills agencies at home and abroad. He is an editor of Oxford Economic Papers and a member of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
Ken can be contacted by email at: ken.mayhew@pmb.ox.ac.uk or by phone on: 01865 883547.