John Marks

Professor John Marks is a British nuclear physicist, educator and author. He has written extensively on British education and has co-authored, with Caroline Cox, This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century, and The West, Islam and Islamism: Is Ideological Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy?

Marks and Caroline Cox published a survey of school standards in 1983. They later claimed they were the subject of a smear campaign, after an official briefing questioning their methods leaked to the press.

The New York Times credited Marks with significant influence on Conservative education policy in 1987:

it is not parents' demands that have given political shape to Conservative education policy, but lobbying by a small group of radical ideologists on the right of the party. Among the most energetic campaigners have been Lady Caroline Cox, Dr. John Marks and Prof. Roger Scruton, a philosopher-journalist of Birkbeck College, London. They have appeared wearing hats as associates of the Center for Policy Studies, the National Council for Education Standards, the Hillgate Group and the Institute of Economic Affairs, whose present education consultant, Stuart Sexton, spent six single-minded years inside the Education Department as political adviser to successive ministers.

Affiliations

• Schools Examination and Assessment Council, 1990-3
• National Curriculum Council, 1992-3
• Schools Curriculum & Assessment Authority, 1993-7
• Centre for Social Cohesion - Advisory Council
• National Council for Educational Standards - Former Administrator
• Educational Research Trust - Co-director
• Prague Society for International Cooperation - Member
• Panellist at Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive? a conference held in Rome on 13-14 March 2008, under the auspices of the European Freedom Alliance in conjunction with the European University of Rome and the Lepanto Foundation.

Publications

• Relativity: A Non-Mathematical Introduction to the Classical, Special and General Theories of Relativity, Geoffrey Chapman, London, 1972.
• Science and the Making of the Modern World, Heinemann, Oxford, 1984.
• With Caroline Cox, The Insolence of Office, Claridge Press, 1988.
• Fried Snowballs: Communism in Theory and Practice, Claridge Press, London, 1990.
• The Betrayed Generations: Standards in British Schools 1950-2000, Centre for Policy Studies, London, 2001.
• With Caroline Cox, Islam, Islamism and the West: The Divide Between Ideological Islam and Liberal Democracy, American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, 2005.
• With Caroline Cox, This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century, Monarch Books, Toronto, 2006.