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Sir Peter Scott is a former Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University in Kingston upon Thames in southwest London. He held that post since 1998 and stepped down from the role at the end of 2010 to take up a professorship of higher education studies at the Institute of Education, University of London. Previous roles include Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at the University of Leeds, director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Education and, from 1976 to 1992, editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement. He studied modern history as an undergraduate at Oxford University.

Scott holds strong views about the need for administrators rather than academics to govern the activities of universities—so that administrators are the "key profession" in higher education.

He served on the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct from 1994–2000, and later was the Vice-Chairman (and acting Chairman during the interregnum between the resignation of Lord Steyn and the appointment of Lord Nicholls, both Law Lords).

In 2009 Scott tried to persuade the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) that an internet domain name—www.sirpeterscott.com—run by a former Kingston lecturer, Dr Howard Fredrics, constituted a trademark owned by him (Scott) and that Fredrics did not have the right to use it. The WIPO ruled against Scott. Fredrics was subsequently convicted of harassing Scott via the website, although the conviction was later set aside and he was then found to have 'no case to answer' in a re-trial. This latter case later gained further notoriety following the raising of questions in the UK House of Commons by David Burrowes, MP, in which he offered the case as example of disproportionate use of police and prosecutorial resources at the behest of influential individuals and organizations.

Honours

Peter Scott was knighted in 2007 for "services to education". He has received the following honorary awards:

• Doctor of Laws (University of Bath)
• Doctor of Letters (Council for National Academic Awards, at its last awards ceremony)
• Doctor of Philosophy (Anglia Polytechnic University, now Anglia Ruskin University)
• Doctor of Letters (Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan USA)
• Fellow, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (now merged with the University of Manchester)
• Fellow, Bath College of Higher Education (now Bath Spa University)

References

1. Simon Baker, "Kingston v-c to step down in December", Times Higher Education, 28 May 2010
2. ^ Kingston University, Office of the Vice-Chancellor
3. ^ "Ex-editor to take over at Kingston", Times Higher Education, 21 February 1997 Cite error: The named reference "THE97" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
4. John Gill, "Move over dons, administrators now rule, says v-c", Times Higher Education, 9 April 2009
5. Melanie Newman, "Not in my name: VC loses fight for his domain", Times Higher Education, 14 May 2009
6. Melanie Newman, "Academic to argue that conviction was unlawful", Times Higher Education, 9 March 2010
7. Melanie Newman, "Fresh twist in Fredrics v Scott case", Times Higher Education, 26 April 2010
8. "Fredrics cleared of harassment charge", Times Higher Education, 23 July 2010
9. http://www.davidburrowes.com/07072011_ian_puddick_internet_crime
10. "New year honours awards handed to special people", Wimbledon Guardian, 4 January 2007

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