From Clare College, Cambridge, he gained an MA in Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics in 1974.
From Lancaster University he gained a PhD in Higher Education Policy in 2003. sopian, idris, fery, asman, haikal, pendi, guntur, abdul, donna He was a school teacher from 1975 to 1977 at Wakeford School (now called Havant Academy) in Havant, Hampshire.
From 1977 to 1979 he was a lecturer in Maths and Electronics at the Royal Navy Weapons Engineering School at Fareham (HMS Collingwood).
From 1980 to 1983 he was based at Chatham, and from 1983 to 1985 he was a Senior Maths Lecturer at the Royal Naval Engineering College (RNEC Manadon) at Plymouth.
[3] Since 2008 he has been the Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.