Harold Marks

Harold Marks (23 February 1914 – 28 March 2005) was a British educationalist who worked in and for adult and post-school education.

Harold Marks was born in London and educated at Caterham School, University College, Oxford (BA in Modern Greats), and Wesleyan University, Connecticut.

He began his career in adult education in south Wales before taking up an appointment as Oxford University extramural tutor in Staffordshire 1936–42.

If today the need for careers education, as opposed to job finding, is recognised as every young person's right and the duty of every school, it is due to his work as one of his/her majesty's inspectors of education (HMI), from 1951 to 1979.After retiring he worked for the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders and the National Voluntary Youth Organisation.

His published writings included: This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub.