Harry Judge

{{Short description|Welsh academic (1928–2019)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|8|1|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Cardiff, Wales

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|04|02|1928|08|01|df=yes}}

| death_place = Oxford, England

| education = Cardiff High School

| alma_mater = Brasenose College, Oxford
University College London

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Harry George Judge (1 August 1928 – 2 April 2019) was senior research fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.{{cite web | url = http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U22561 | title = JUDGE, Harry George | access-date = 17 August 2012 | year = 2011 | work = Who's Who 2012 | publisher = Oxford University Press}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/news/2088-dr-harry-judge-an-appreciation |title=Dr Harry Judge: An Appreciation |work=News |publisher=Brasenose College, Oxford |access-date=2019-04-05 }} He was director of the Department of Educational Studies from 1973 to 1988.{{cite web | url = http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/dr-harry-judge/ | title = Dr Harry Judge | access-date = 17 August 2012 | publisher = Department of Education, University of Oxford}} His 80th birthday was marked by the publication of a special volume of the Oxford Review of Education.{{cite journal | title = Making a difference: Harry Judge, teacher education, the university, and the schools | journal = Oxford Review of Education | date = June 2008 | first = Phillips | last = David | volume = 34 | issue = 3 | pages = 271–4 | doi = 10.1080/03054980802116816 }} He was the honorary president of the Oxford Education Society.{{cite web | url = http://www.oxes.org.uk/about-us/who-are-we/ | title = Oxford Education Society: Your Committee | access-date = 28 August 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120710033452/http://www.oxes.org.uk/about-us/who-are-we/ | archive-date = 10 July 2012 | url-status = dead }}

Born in Cardiff, after two years in the Royal Air Force he studied at Brasenose College, taking degrees in Modern History and in Theology.{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=James |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17583276.obituary-dr-harry-judge-of-brasenose-college-and-banbury-school/ |title=OBITUARY: Dr Harry Judge, of Brasenose College and Banbury School |work=Oxford Mail |date=2019-04-18 |access-date=2019-04-20 }} While teaching in schools in London and Surrey he completed a Ph.D. in French history and in 1959 was invited to become director of studies at the St Katharine’s Foundation, Cumberland Lodge.{{cite book |last=Reeves |first1=Marjorie |title=Christian thinking and social order: conviction politics from the 1930s to the present day |location=London |publisher=Cassell |date=1999 |isbn=0304702471 }} In 1962, he was appointed Headmaster of Banbury Grammar School and coordinated its merger with three other secondary schools to form Banbury School (now Wykham Park Academy), of which he became the first principal.{{cite book |last=Crossman |first1=Richard |author-link=Richard Crossman |title=The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister |volume=1 |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |date=1975 |isbn=0241891108 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/diariesofcabinet0000cros }}

While in Banbury, he was a member of the Public Schools Commissions{{cite book |last=Newsom |first1=John |title=The Public Schools Commission first report |location=London |publisher=HMSO |year=1968 |isbn=0112700012 }}{{cite book |last=Newsom |first1=John |title=The Public Schools Commission second report |location=London |publisher=HMSO |year=1970 |isbn=0112701701 }} and in 1970 of the James Committee of Enquiry into Teacher Education.{{cite book |last=James |first1=Eric |author-link=Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme |title=Teacher education and training |location=London |publisher=HMSO |year=1972 |isbn=0112702368 }} In 1973, he was elected as director of the Oxford University Department of Educational Studies (later to be renamed the Department of Education) and a professorial fellow of Brasenose College. His work at Oxford focused on building a research partnership extending across the university and on integrating the university role with that of local schools in the professional education of teachers.{{cite book |last=Benton |first1=Peter |title=The Oxford internship scheme : integration + partnership in initial teacher education |location=London |publisher=Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |year=1990 |isbn=0903319535 }}

In the 1980s he chaired the BBC Schools Broadcasting Council and the Royal College of Nursing Commission on the education of nurses.{{cite book |last=Commission on Nursing Education |title=The education of nurses |location=London |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |year=1985 }} He completed for the Ford Foundation a report on graduate schools of education in the United States, and on his retirement from his Oxford appointments became professor of teacher education policy at Michigan State University, subsequently serving as a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford University.