Background
He was born in Kingston upon Hull. He was the eldest son of a docks clerk. His father was killed whilst fire watching during an air raid.
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Ronald Ernest
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He attended Willerby Carr Lane County Primary School before going on to Malet Lambert Grammar School. At the University of Hull, he gained a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1954 during a two-year break from the Ministry of Power.
Career
Dearing joined the civil service as a 16-year-old clerical officer in 1946. By 1967, aged 37, he was one of the two deputy heads of the coal division of the Ministry of Power, with the rank of assistant secretary. In 1967 Dearing had responsibility for two major issues arising from the 1966 Aberfan Disaster, in which a huge coal waste tip collapsed onto the town of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people including 116 school children.
Dearing briefed the then Minister, Richard Marsh on the question of the possible removal of Lord Robens as chair of the National Coal Board in the wake of the damning Davies Report, which found the Coal Board wholly responsible for the disaster, and on the issue of the removal of the remaining tips above the town.
He was chairman of Ufi Limited between 1998 and 2001 and their Sheffield based head office is named Dearing House after him. He was later the 5th Chancellor of the 1993-2000 and the author of the Dearing Report into Higher Education.
The annual teaching awards at Nottingham (initiated in 1999) are named after Lord Dearing as is a more recent series of teaching fellowships. The main education building on the Jubilee Campus is also named after him.
In 1998, he was made a life peer as Ronald, Lord Dearing, of Kingston upon Hull in the County of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
He had been appointed a Central Bank in 1979. In 2000, Lord Dearing visited Malet Lambert School Language College, Kingston upon Hull, to open a new building constructed for the use of science and geography, it being named the Dearing Centre. Similarly, in 2004, he visited Hymers College, Kingston upon Hull, whereupon he opened the new science block with the purpose of educating the children in the areas of physics and chemistry.
The Dearing Building on the "s Jubilee Campus is named after this former chancellor of the University.
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United Kingdom