Terence Kealey

{{short description|British biochemist (born 1952)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | name = George Terence Evelyn Kealey | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1952|02|16}}<ref name="whoswho"/> | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = University of Buckingham<br>University of Cambridge<br>University of Oxford | alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford | thesis_title = Studies on actomyosin in rat parotid and on eccrine sweat glands | thesis_url = http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=oxfaleph016572607 | thesis_year = 1982 | doctoral_advisor = Philip Randle<ref name="kealeyphd"/> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|buckingham.ac.uk/directory/dr-terence-kealey/}} | footnotes = | spouse = Sally<ref>{{cite web|title=News from the Foundation Office|url=https://extranet.buckingham.ac.uk/alumnet/pdf/autumn-2007.pdf|work=University of Buckingham|accessdate=12 April 2013|date=Autumn 2007}}</ref> }} '''George Terence Evelyn Kealey''' (born 16 February 1952) is a British biochemist who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham,<ref name="whoswho">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U41596 |title=Kealey, Prof. (George) Terence (Evelyn), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn }}{{subscription required}}</ref> a private university in Britain. He was appointed Professor of Clinical Biochemistry in 2011. Prior to his tenure at Buckingham, Kealey lectured in clinical biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is well known for his outspoken opposition to public funding of science.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kealey |first1=T. |title=Science is not a public good: it is an invisible college good. |journal=Nanotechnology Perceptions |date=2008 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=98–100}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nature.com/spoton/event/spoton-london-2012-crowdfunded-science-new-opportunities-or-dangerous-echo-chamber/ |title=SpotOn London 2012: Crowdfunded science – new opportunities or dangerous echo chamber? | SpotOn |work=SpotOn: Science policy, outreach and tools online }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/jun/29/terence-kealey-vice-chancellor-buckingham |title=Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of Buckingham and private university champion |author=Peter Wilby |date=29 June 2010 |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=20 March 2011|author-link=Peter Wilby }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Moriarty |first1=P. |last2=Kealey |first2=T. |title=Public Science—Public Good?|journal=Nanotechnology Perceptions |date=2010 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=75–83}}</ref>

==Education== Kealey was educated at Charterhouse School, completed his degrees of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at St Bartholomew's Hospital, then gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1982<ref name="kealeyphd">{{cite thesis |degree=DPhil |first=Terence|last=Kealey |title=Studies on actomyosin in rat parotid and on eccrine sweat glands |publisher=University of Oxford |date=1982 |url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=oxfaleph016572607| authorlink=Terence Kealey}}</ref> for a thesis on actomyosin in rat parotid and eccrine sweat glands.

==Publications== Kealey occasionally writes pieces for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and is the author of several books on the economics of science. He has written about how Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain's universities and schools as Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1970 to 1974,<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/9979999/How-Margaret-Thatcher-transformed-our-universities.html telegraph.co.uk: "How Margaret Thatcher transformed our universities" 8 Apr 2013]</ref> and has suggested that a debate with him in 1985 helped to shape her views on the Nobel Prize and the role of the state in sponsoring science.<ref name=maddtel>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/thatcher-conference-liberty/10909494/Margaret-Thatcher-was-wrong-about-one-thing-science-doesnt-need-Nobel-prizes-to-thrive.html telegraph.co.uk: "Margaret Thatcher was wrong about one thing: science doesn't need Nobel prizes to thrive" 18 Jun 2014]</ref> He cites the economic study of the business of science by Angus Maddison, as well as a survey entitled ''The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries'' (2003), which found that between 1971 and 1998 only privately funded research had stimulated economic growth in the world's 21 leading industrialised countries. However, this theory has been challenged by a study which agrees with Kealey's criticism of the linear model but tries to support the value of state funding by the production of externalities.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Martin|first1=Ben R. |last2=Tang|first2=Puay|title=The Benefits From Publicly Funded Research|url=https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=Fac-BRM-UMIP&site=25|date=September 2006 |publisher=SPRU – Science and Technology Research, University of Sussex|location=Falmer, Brighton}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=The economic laws of scientific research |publisher=Macmillan Press |location=London |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-312-17306-7 }} * {{cite book |title=Sex, science and profits |publisher=William Heinemann |location=London |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-434-00824-7 }} * {{cite book |title=Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal: Why You Should Ditch Your Morning Meal For Health and Wellbeing |publisher=Fourth Estate |location=London |year=2016 |pages=352 |isbn=978-0008172343|oclc=994867927 }}

==Advocacy of privatisation of higher education== In February 2010, Kealey proposed the establishment of a new independent university, modelled on American liberal arts colleges, which would concentrate on undergraduate teaching rather than research.<ref name=NewUni2>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-big-question-should-we-encourage-independent-schools-to-set-up-a-private-university-1894475.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220811/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-big-question-should-we-encourage-independent-schools-to-set-up-a-private-university-1894475.html |archive-date=11 August 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The Big Question: Should we encourage independent schools to set up a private university?|date=10 February 2010|author=Lucy Hodges|newspaper=Independent|accessdate = 2010-03-17 | location=London}}</ref> It was to be based at the disused Wye College in Kent, owned by Imperial College.<ref>[http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/new-elite-university-planned-to-rival-oxbridge-1-1059602 New elite university planned to rival Oxbridge], Kent News, 11 February 2010</ref> The plan was supported by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), whose 243 members include independent schools such as Eton College, Winchester College and St Paul's School, London. Kealey believed that complaints about impersonal teaching and oversized classes at many traditional universities mean there would be strong demand for higher education with staff-student ratios similar to that provided by independent secondary schools.<ref name=NewUni1>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7017836.ece|title=Private schools plan to set up university|date=7 February 2010|author=Sian Griffiths|newspaper=Sunday Times|accessdate=2010-03-17|location=London|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716154925/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7017836.ece|archivedate=16 July 2011}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kealey, Terence}} Category:Living people Category:Vice-chancellors by university in England Category:1952 births Category:Academics of the University of Buckingham Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Category:People educated at Charterhouse School Category:British biochemists