biography
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Cox, (Charles) Brian
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| British academic. He studied at Cambridge, taught English at Hull University (1954–66), then became professor at Manchester and pro-Vice-Chancellor (1987). A member of the Kingman Committee on the English Language, he became chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group (1988–9). As well as a series of Black Papers on Education (1969–77), his publications include The Free Spirit (1963) and Joseph Conrad: the Modern Imagination (1974). He has also written books of poetry, Collected Poems appearing in 1993. His name is most widely known in UK English circles as the author of the report produced on the teaching of English in the National Curriculum (the Cox Report). |
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