Anthony Elliott-Kelly

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, or Anthony Kelly and commonly known as Tony Kelly, is an Irish academic who is currently Professor of Education at the

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, England.

Education and career

Kelly attended secondary school at

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, Athlone, and attended the

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Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the R ...

and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

. He previously worked at the

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with Mel West, and before that was a headteacher in

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. His background is in

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and

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. He is a fellow of the

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and of the

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, organizations devoted to improving education and research. In 2013 he was elected as an Academician of the

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. He was a leading figure in the movement to integrate and rationalise education in the Irish border region where he developed new governance structures. Kelly was well known in

because of his work in merging schools with different traditions. As a student at Cambridge he famously cast doubt on the sincerity of a student discussion (on Irish politics) in a student society. Kelly was founding editor of the

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''Education, Knowledge and Economy'', serves on the editorial board of other international academic journals, and is an invited lecturer and Visiting Professor at several leading universities. He serves on several national UK steering groups and approval panels, and has appeared before the House of Commons Select Committee on Education. He served on the REF2014 and REF2021 panels for Education. He also retains an interest and involvement in Anglo-Irish affairs. He is the author of approximately one hundred single-authored research reports, books and papers in leading academic journals. and was highly regarded by students for the quality of his lectures. He is a member of the Hawks Club ambridge the Oxford & Cambridge Club all Malland the Athenaeum all Mall He has played Bridge at International level for Northern Ireland.

Works

His books include: *''Benchmarking for School Improvement: A Practical Guide for Comparing & Improving Effectiveness''. London, Routledge Falmer, 2001. *''Decision-making through Game Theory''. Cambridge,

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, 2003. *''The Intellectual Capital of Schools: Measuring and managing knowledge, responsibility and reward: Lessons from the commercial sector''. Dordrecht, New York & London, Kluwer Academic Press, 2004. *''School Choice and Student Well-being: opportunity and capability in education''. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. *''Using Effectiveness Data for School Improvement: developing and utilising metrics''. London, Routledge, 2011. ith Downey, Christopher* ''Developing metrics for equity, diversity and competition: new measures for schools and universities''. London, Routledge, 2016. * ''Dynamic Management and Leadership in Education: high reliability techniques for schools, colleges and universities''. London, Routledge, 2021.

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