Career
Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now:
- a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer
- President of the School Library Association for 2006-2009
- a consultant for the Open University
- Honorary Fellow of York St John University
- Doctor of Letters of the University of Leicester
- Fellow and Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside.
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