Colin Nelson POWER (Australia)
Mandate: January 1989 – 1999
Born in 1939, Mr Power holds a B.A. in Chemistry, a diploma in Education Sciences, a B.A. in Education and a Ph.D. in Education Sciences, all from the University of Queensland (Australia).
Mr Power was a Sciences and Mathematics teacher in Queensland’s high schools from 1961 to 1963 before working as a researcher at the Queensland Education Department from 1964 to 1967. He then worked as a Professor in Education at the University of Queensland, and at the School of Education of Flinders University (Australia).
Publications
- “Technical and vocational education for the twenty-first century”, in Prospects: quarterly review of comparative education (1999)
- “Learning: a means or an end? A look at the Delors Report and its implications for educational renewal”, in Prospects: quarterly review of comparative education (1997)

