Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK; before it was the Open University. He has published extensively on the implications of class and gender in education and about equal opportunities policies taking into account the dimensions of race and gender. Some of his publications include: Race and Gender: Opportunities Policies equal in education (1985); Gender Under Scrutiny: new inquiries in education (1987); Gender and the Politics of Schooling (1987); Feminism and Social Justice in Education (1993, with Kathleen Weiler et al.) Feminist Politics and Education Reform (in press).