Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone
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The Right Honourable Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC, is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords.
She has been Minister for Education at the Department of Education from 1997 to 2001 then Minister for the Arts at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport 2001–2003. Before joining the government, she headed Birkbeck College from 1987 to 1997.
Tessa Blackstone is in collaboration with Luigi Berlinguer (Italy), Claude Allegre (France) and Jürgen Rüttgers (Germany) one of the heads of the "Sorbonne declaration", the joint declaration on harmonisation of the architecture of the European higher education system, on 25 May 1998. That was the Intro to the "Bologna process".
In 2004, she became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich.
The Vosper in her name comes from her non-executive directorship with Vosper Thornycroft, a company which supplies ‘facilities’ and weapons not only to the UK forces, but also to the US Department of Defence and the Middle East.
External links
- [Vice-Chancellor – Baroness Blackstone at U-Gre]
- Donald MacLeod, The Guardian, July 12, 2005, ["Tessa Blackstone: Naval gazing"]
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