Philip Adey obituary

My father, Philip Adey, who has died aged 73, was a chemistry teacher turned educationist and author. He devoted the majority of his working life to researching and promoting the teaching of thinking skills in school. His work on science teaching methods produced significant gains at GCSE, not only in science but also in maths and English. The method was further developed for primary education.Philip was born in Sevenoaks, Kent. After attending Bryanston school, Dorset, he gained a BSc in chemistry and a PGCE and Academic Diploma in Education from the London Institute of Education. Appointed head of chemistry at the Lodge school in Barbados in 1963, he left in 1970 to become a consultant on the Caribbean Integrated Science Project based at the University of the West Indies.Returning to the UK in 1974 to complete his PhD at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, he then worked for the British Council in London and Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1979 to 1984. He went on to be a researcher, lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and professor at King's College London. After retiring in 2004, he continued working in Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Hungary and Poland. He was recently the education commissioner for Westminster city council.Throughout his period at Chelsea and King's, Philip pursued a research and development programme related to the assessment and enhancement of school students' intellectual ability. This led to a series of publications on cognitive acceleration and professiona...
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