Naomi Sargant

Naomi Ellen Sargant, Baroness McIntosh of Haringey (10 December 1933 – 23 July 2006) was a British television executive and academic specialising in adult education.

[1] She was educated at Friends School Saffron Walden, later graduating from Bedford College, University of London with a degree in sociology.

[2] After an early career in market research and consumer interests (she was an associate of Michael Young on the National Consumer Council[3]) Sargant became a college lecturer in 1967 and joined the new Open University in 1970, for whom (as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Affairs) from 1974 to 1978[4]) she presented the Open Forum programme on radio and television.

NIACE published Lifelong Learning: A Brave and Proper Vision Selected writings of Naomi Sargant in 2009[7] and organises an annual memorial lecture in her honour.

NIACE director Alan Tuckett described Sargant at the time of her death as "among the most distinguished adult educators of the post-war era".