Kathy Sylva is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Oxford, Department of Education. She is one of the leaders of the DCFS research on effective pre-school and primary education (EPPE) and on the evaluations of the Transformation Fund and the Early Learning Partnership Project.
A dominant theme throughout her work has been the impact of education and care not only on 'subject knowledge' but on children’s problem-solving, social skills and dispositions to learn. A related theme in her research is the impact of early intervention in combating social disadvantage and exclusion.
She was specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education in 2000-2001 and again in 2005-07. She advised the Scottish Parliament in 2005-6 on Early Years; and in 2006 she advised the Government on the teaching of phonics.
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