Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 (LT 1)
The Department of Arts, Open Communities & Adult Education, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, invites Faculty, students and members of the general public to a talk delivered by Professor Andy Green, Professor of Comparative Social Science at UCL, Institute of Education, London. The talk will address the following topic: The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare.
Andy Green is a Professor of Comparative Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education, and a Director of the Research Centre on Learning and Life Chances (LLAKES). He has acted as consultant to international bodies, such as CEDEFOP, the European Training Foundation, the European Commission, OECD and UNESCO, and to various UK Government departments.
He has published widely on a range of social and education issues with major works translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, including: Education and State Formation: Europe, East Asia and the USA, Palgrave, 2013; Regimes of Social Cohesion: Societies and the Crisis of Globalisation, Palgrave 2011; Education and Development in a Global Era: Strategies for ‘Successful’ Globalisation, DFID, 2007. Most recently he has been working policies for reducing inter-generational inequality as outlined in his 2017 open access Palgrave book: The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare. He was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences.
- The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequality in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare. Available on open access from Palgrave .
- Handbook of Global Education Policy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016 (edited with Mundy, K. Lingard, B. and Verger,
