Renowned former Warwick Registrar Professor Michael (Mike) Shattock, has just been awarded 'The Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award' at the Times Higher Education Awards 2014, which were announced in the night of Thursday 27 November 2014.

Mike is now a Visiting Professor of Higher Education at the Centre for Higher Education Studies, Institute of Education, University of London but of course a great many Warwick staff will have known him during his time here as Warwick’s longest serving Registrar to date.

Mike joined Warwick in 1969 serving first as Deputy Registrar and Academic Registrar and was appointed Registrar 1983. He served as Warwick’s Registrar until 1999.

Most fittingly for this particular award he served on “The Structure and Governance of Higher Education” working group of Lord Dearing’s 1997 National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education. He has served on numerous other high-profile inquiries into university governance and management issues, notably University College, Cardiff (1987), the University of the West Indies (1994), the European University Institute, Florence (1996), the University of Cambridge (2001), the University of Ghana (2006) and has been asked to advise on higher education issues in Canada, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Lesotho, Malta, New Zealand, the West Bank, South Africa and the UAE.

He has worked closely with the OECD, was a member of the board of the OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education and served as Editor of the OECD journal Higher Education Management and Policy. He led the IMHE programme of support to universities in the East European ‘transition’ countries (1992-94) and chaired the OECD Review of Irish Higher Education (2003).

He has published widely on the field of higher education and his books include Making a University, 1991, The UGC and the Management of British Universities, 1994, Managing Successful Universities, 2003 (also published in Chinese and Arabic translations), Managing Good Governance in Higher Education, 2006, Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy (Ed), 2009, Making Policy in British Higher Education: 1945-2011 (2012), and Entrepreneurialism and the Transformation of Russian Universities (Ed), 2004. He has published over 80 articles and other chapters in books and has edited the journals Higher Education Quarterly (1986-96) and Minerva (1996-2000). Mike also holds honorary degrees from Warwick, Reading and Leicester, and he was awarded an OBE in 1988.

Warwick’s current Registrar Ken Sloan was with Mike at the award ceremony, he said:

As one of the many Registrars that developed their careers under Mike I am personally delighted to see him receive this award recognising the significant impact he has had on our sector.

I know he is still proud of Warwick’s continued success as Times and Sunday Times University of the Year going into its 50th anniversary, and equally proud of the fact that today there are a number of Registrars in post who once served as part of his team at Warwick, including those at Leicester, Birmingham, Cambridge, Newcastle, Nottingham and of course Warwick.”

You can also hear Mike talking about his time at Warwick online from the 'Voices of the University' collection here.