Tony Watts lecturing in Berlin, 2012. .
tony watts, born 1942
career development research & public policy
Tony Watts was born in Oxford. Some of his post-war childhood was spent in Germany, where his father served as an army officer. After school at Prior Park, Tony taught for a year at a preparatory school before going to St. Catharine’s College Cambridge with an Open Exhibition to read history. He joined Cornmarket Press, editing ‘Which University’, the first-ever consumer guide to higher education. He was joint-founder of the Careers Research and Advisory Centre in Cambridge, and after an MPhil in sociology at the University of York, established the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling, which he directed for 26 years. Following a year at OECD in Paris, he became an international policy consultant on career development, with Visiting Professorships at the University of Derby and Canterbury Christ Church University.
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Source: One of seven life stories extracted in 2020 by Tony Watts from a family history written jointly by him and his three siblings: Paul, Veronica Mary, and Clare.