Dennis Hayes

Dennis Hayes is Professor of Education at the University of Derby and a visiting professor in the Westminster Institute of Education atOxford Brookes University. He was made a National Teaching Fellow in 2010.

He has been a columnist for FE Focus in the Times Educational Supplement and writes regularly for the national press on educational issues and is a member of the Editorial Board of theTimes Higher Education magazine.

In 2006-2007 he was the first (joint) President of the University and College Union (UCU) the largest post-compulsory education union in the world. A TES profile at this time said: "He is thin, energetic, elliptical, tense and intense, a man who avoids easy conclusions..."   

He is the Hon. Secretary of the Standing Committee for the Education and Training of Teachers  (SCETT) and since 2004 he has been the convenor of the Institute of Ideas Education Forum.

He is well-known throughout higher education as the founder of the campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF).