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Sir Brian K Follett (born 1939) chairs the UK government's Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) that's responsible for recruiting to the teaching profession (ca. 40,000 p.a.), for the training of the wider workforce in schools and for the modernisation (change managemwent) of schools and implementation of such policies as "extended schools". He is a non-stipendiary Professor in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University. UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council. Follett was until December 2007 the chair of the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), was formerly Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University from 1993 to 2001 and professor of zoology at Bristol University from 1978 until 2003. He chaired a government inquiry into the 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis entitled The Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock. This inquiry examined the scientific aspects of the crisis, for instance the efficacy of vaccinations, the way the virus spreads and so on.
Follett's research interests are in the reproductive biology of higher vertebrates, and in particular, seasonal breeding in birds and mammals.

Career and Awards

1944-1957 - School education in Bournemouth, England
1960 - BSc with 1st class hons in biochemistry (called biological chemistry at that time) from Bristol University
1964 - PhD in pharmacology from Bristol University
1965-1969 Lecturer in Zoology, University of Leeds
1969-1978 Lecturer, then Reader and then Professor - University of Wales, Bangor
1978-1993 - Professor of Zoology and Head of Department at Bristol University
15 March 1984 - FRS
1987-1993 - Biological Secretary, The Royal Society
1992 - Knighted for services to science
1993 to 2001 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick
2001-2007 - Chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
2003-2009 - Chairman of the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA)
Director for many years of the AFRC's Research Group on Photoperiodism and Reproduction. Published ca. 400 papers.

Chaired a number of government enquiries including:

two on university libraries (1993 and 2003, both for HEFCE and the other UK Funding Councils)
one for the ESRC and the British Academy on the future of funding in the humanities and social sciences (1992)
and one on the consequences of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital Inquiry in relation to academic and clinical careers in medicine (2001)

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