Background
Harold Marks was born in London and educated at Caterham School, University College, Oxford (Bachelor in Modern Greats), and Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
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Harold Marks
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Wesleyan University.
Career
At Oxford he fell under the influence of G. Doctorate. H. Cole and Sandy Lindsay. He began his career in adult education in south Wales before taking up an appointment as Oxford University extramural tutor in Staffordshire 1936-1942. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Army Educational Corps.
In 1946 he left the Army with the rank of Captain.
After the War he was served as Rowntree Trust as Education Secretary to the Educational Centres Association and Educational Adviser to the National Federation of Community Associations. He joined Her Majesty"s Inspectorate of Education in 1951, working in Yorkshire and Kent & Surrey before being promoted Staff Inspector in 1970.
If today the need for careers education, as opposed to job finding, is recognised as every young person"s right and the duty of every school, it is due to his work as one of his/her majesty"s inspectors of education (Human machine interface), from 1951 to 1979. After retiring he worked for the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders and the National Voluntary Youth Organisation.
His published writings included:
Chapters in Bernard Jennings, Community Education In England And Wales (1980)
With K. T. Elsdon, Adults In The Colleges Of Further Education (1991)
Chapters in Enterprising Neighbours (1990)
With K. T. Elsdon, An Education Foreign The People? A History Of Human machine interface And long Education (2001).
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Political Party
The People