Ken Imison

Ken Imison, B.A. (Hons.), M.Ed (Hons.) taught in primary schools in New South Wales and London for sixteen years. Eight of those years were spent teaching special classes for gifted children.

Mr. Imison became a Lecturer in Gifted Education in 1969 at Mitchell College of Advanced Education at Bathurst and in 1975 was appointed Head of Curriculum and Instruction and Chairman of the School of Education at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowomba. In 1979 he was appointed to the newly created position of Dean of Education at that Institute and remained in that position until June 1988 when he retired from tertiary education in order to establish his own consultancy and testing Centre, SOI (Australia).

Mr Imison was the cofounder of the Australian Assocation for the Gifted and Talented and was foundation president of that Association for four years.

He is a member of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children and has served as a member of that organisation's Executive Committee and as an Australian delegate to its Assembly. He has presented papers at state, national and international conferences on the Gifted and is currently writing a book on the educationm of the gifted.

Mr Imison was the Chairman of the Board of Senior Secondary School Studies from 1989 to 2001.