Hoja de Vida Expositora: Pauline Dixon Tema: La oportunidad de los pobres a una educación de calidad Jointly authored article on “Private Schools for the Poor in Gansu Province” in Private Education Research (in Chinese) won first prize in the 2007 academic essay competition of The Fourth China Educators’ Annual Conference. Templeton Prize for Free Market Solutions to Poverty, 1st Prize, March 2006, (presented in Colorado Springs, USA) (As Director of Research in the EG West Centre, Newcastle University) The course on “Educational Freedom – A global perspective” jointly created by Dixon and Tooley won a $25,000 award from the Freedom Project of the Atlas Economic Foundation (USA). Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Contest Winner 2003 for Regulation of Private Schooling for Low-Income Families in India Full scholarship and place on the ‘Advanced Seminar in Austrian Economics’, in New York, USA (2001).

PROFESSIONAL BODIES

Member of the Monte Pelerin Society Editorial Board for the Journal of School Choice, USA

RESEARCH GRANTS - LEADING RESEARCHER/INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COORDINATOR

All $ are US dollars September 2011-September 2013, £310,344.82, UBS, AG, Extending Access to Quality Education for the Underserved (Contributed to the research proposal as well as bought out 10%) April 2011-May 2013, £270,000, John Templeton Foundation. Low cost private schools in the world’s most difficult places: the role of for-profit private education in conflict-affected states in Africa (Contributed to the research proposal (40%) and named as Co Investigator; bought out 10%) Jan 2007-December 2009, $2 million, Orient Global Foundation, Competition, Innovation and Change in Education Markets for the Poor in Developing Countries (Contributed to the research proposal and named as one of two co-researchers in this; bought out 60% of my time as International Research Coordinator; allocated 40% of grant in the RAE summary)

June 2003 to Dec 2005, £568,000, John Templeton Foundation (plus $75,000 additional grant and $75,000 Templeton matching grant) Is Private Education good for the Poor? A research and development project in Africa and Asia (Contributed to the research proposal and named as the only co-researcher; bought out 100% of my time as International Research Co-ordinator; allocated 45% of grant in the RAE summary).

Jan 2001 –Sep 2002, £86,000, CfBT R&D in private education for the poor in India 1999 Regeneration Project, North East England, Northern Economic Research Unit (NERU)

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CONSULTANCY

Academic expert columnist for Geopolitical Information Services 2011-present (http://www.geopolitical-info.com/en)

Education Advisor for International Education 2009-present - Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) with focus on schools catering for the poor in Delhi, India – Voucher Programme and Phonics Intervention.

South Africa 2008-2009 - The Centre for Development and Enterprise in Johannesburg – Private Schools for the Poor in South Africa.

PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Dixon, P. and Marshall, P. (2011) International Aid and Educating the Poorest, London,

Centre Forum. Dixon, P. (2010) RTE Act and Private School Regulation, CCS Policy Review 4, Delhi, India

Centre for Civil Society. Tooley, J., and Dixon, P. (2006) Educación Privada Y Pobreza – Un estudio de las escuelas

privadas que sirven en países de bajos ingresos, Lima, Peru, UPC.

Tooley, James, and Dixon, Pauline (2005) Private education is good for the poor: A study of private schools serving the poor in low-income countries, Washington DC: Cato Institute. (Translated into Spanish, 2006, published in Peru and Guatemala).

Tooley, James, and Dixon, Pauline (2005) Private Schools Serving the Poor: A study from Delhi, India, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi

Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Stanfield, James (2003) Delivering Better Education: market solutions to education London, Adam Smith Institute

Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2003) Private Schools for the Poor: A Case Study from India, Reading, CfBT

Craven, B., Dixon, P., Stewart, G., and Tooley, J. (2001) HIV and Aids in Schools: The

political economy of pressure groups and miseducation, London, Profile Books.

PUBLICATIONS - CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Dixon P, and Woolner P. (2012) Practical Quantitative Data Analysis - Using SPSS. In: Briggs,

A. and Coleman, M, ed. Research Methods in Educational Leadership and Management. Sage: London, 2012, pp.340-362.

Dixon, P., and Tooley, J. (2011) Revolution at the grassroots in developing countries:

Implications for School Choice in America, In: Forster, G., Thompson, C.B., ed. Freedom and School Choice in American Education, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 111-128.

Dixon P. (2011) Private Schools for the Poor: A Little Nurturing and Support goes a very long way. In: Leube, K.R., ed. Economics, Politics, Philosophy, and the Arts: Essays in Honor of H.S.H. Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein. van Eck Publishers.

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Dixon, P. (2008) Delivering Better Education: A Market for Schools, In HSH Prince Michael of Liechtenstien, Leube, K. R., (Eds.) 2068, Liechtenstein, Industrie Und Finanzkontor.

Tooley, J., and Dixon, P., (2007). Private education for low income families: Research from a

global research project. In:Srivastava, P., Walford, G. (Eds.), Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspective. Symposium Books, Didcot.

Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2006), The Failures of State Schooling in Developing

Countries and the People’s Response, in Miles, M., Homes, K.R., and O’Grady, M.A. (eds), 2006 Index of Economic Freedom, Chapter 2, 27-37, The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal, Washington DC.

Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline (2006), Los fracasos de la educación pública en los países

en desarrollo y la respuesta popular, in Miles, M., Homes, K.R., and O’Grady, M.A. (eds), Indice de Libertad Economica 2006, Capítulo 2, 29-39, The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal, Washington DC.

Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2003) “Providing Education to the World’s Poor: A case

study of the private sector in India”, in Davies, Brent and West-Burnham, John (eds), The Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management, Pearson Longman, London and New York.

PUBLICATIONS – REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Dixon, P., Schagen, I., and Seedhouse, P. (2011) The Impact of an Intervention on Children's

Reading and Spelling Ability in Low-Income Schools in India, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Volume 22, No.4

Dixon P., and Tooley, J. (forthcoming) The Impact of Free Primary Education on Private

Schools in Kibera, Kenya: A longitudinal study – Four Years On, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership,

Burgess, M., and Dixon, P. (forthcoming) An Assessment of School Climate in the Developing

World: A Comparative Study of Private and Public Sector School Management in Aguablanca, Colombia, Educational Management Administration and Leadership

Tooley, J., Dixon, P., Bao, Y., and Merrifield, J. (2011), School Choice and Academic

Performance: Some Evidence from Developing Countries, Journal of School Choice: Research, Theory and Reform, 2011, volume 5, number 1, pp. 1-39

Tooley, J., Dixon, P, and SV Gomathi, (2010) A Rejoinder to Sarangapani and Winch, Oxford

Review of Education, Volume 36, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 517 – 520, doi: 10.1080/03054985.2010.509169

Tooley, J., Dixon, P., Shamsan, Y., and Schagen, I. (2010) ‘The Relative Quality and Cost-

Effectiveness of Private and Public schools for Low-income Families: A case study from developing countries’, School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Volume 20 issue 4, pp.1-28

Tooley, J., Dixon, P., and Stanfield, J. (2008) The Impact of Free Education in Kenya: A case

study in private schools in Kibera, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, Volume 36, No 4, pp. 449-469

Tooley, James; Qiang, Liu; & Dixon, Pauline. (2007). Private Schools for the Poor in Gansu

Province, China. Xi’an: Private Education Research. Vol. 6, 29 (2), pp 25-28. 詹姆

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斯·杜力，刘强， 鲍玲·狄金森. (2007). 中国甘肃省农村地区为低收入家庭服务的民办学校. 西安:民办教育研究.第六期，29 卷（2），25-28 页.

Tooley, J., and Dixon, P. (2007) Private schooling for low-income families: A census and

comparative survey in East Delhi, India, International Journal of Educational Development, volume 27, no. 2, pp. 205-219.

Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Gomathi, S.V., (2007) Private Schools and the Millennium

Development Goal of Universal Primary Education: A census and comparative survey in Hyderabad, India, Oxford Review of Education 33(5), 539-560.

Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Amuah, Isaac (2007), “Private and Public Schooling in Ga,

Ghana: A census and comparative survey” International Review of Education 53(3–4): 389-415.

Tooley, J., and Dixon, P. (2006) Los fracasos de la educacion publica y la respuesta popular,

Perspectiva, No. 9, pp. 22-27 Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2006) ‘De Facto’ Privatisation of Education and the Poor:

Implications of a Study from sub-Saharan Africa and India, Compare 36(4), 443-462 Tooley, J., P. Dixon, and O. Olaniyan. 2005. “Private and Public Schooling in Low-Income

Areas of Lagos State, Nigeria: A Census and Comparative Survey.” International Journal of Educational Research 43(3): 125–46.

Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline (2005) An Inspector Calls: the regulation of ‘budget’ private

schools in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, International Journal of Educational Development. 25, 269-285

Dixon, P., and Tooley, J., (2005) The Regulation of Private schools serving Low-income

families in Andhra Pradesh, India, Review of Austrian Economics, volume 18 no.1, March, pp. 29-54

Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline (2005) Is there a conflict between commercial gain and

concern for the poor? Evidence from private schools for the poor in India and Nigeria, Economic Affairs, 25.2, 20-27.

Dixon, P. (2004) The Regulation of Private schools serving Low-income families in Hyderabad,

India: An Austrian Economic Perspective, Economic Affairs, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 31-37, December, IEA, London.

Mitra, Sugata, Tooley, James, Inamdar, Parimala, and Dixon, Pauline, (2003), “Improving

English Pronunciation: An automated instructional approach”, Information Technologies and International Development, 1.1.75-84

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Completion

Dr. Ahmed Al-Zaidi Current supervisions Ahmad Ismail Mohamad, Amer Pi-Yu Kao Busola Eshiet

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Tina Huddart Christine M Chifamba Michael Burgess Chris Counihan

COURSES TAUGHT AT NEWCASTLE

MA (International Development and Education) MEd (International Development and Education) MARes (Masters in Educational Research)

REFERENCES

Professor Tom Kirkwood CBE, Professor of Medicine and Director, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL – tom.kirkwood@ncl.ac.uk Professor Pete Boettke, Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA – pboettke@gmu.edu Professor Sir Christopher Edwards, Coldharbour House, Court-at-Street Lympne, Kent, England CT21 4PE (Retired Vice Chancellor, Newcastle University) 01303 261564 – c.edwards@ncl.ac.uk

OTHER INTERESTS

Home, cats, family, sport, India.