Oliver Boyd-Barrett was Sub-Dean at the School of Education of the Open University until 1994, and is currently Director of Distance Learning at the Centre for Mass Communications Research, University of Leicester. Pamela O'Malley has taught for many years at the British Council School in Madrid. She was active in the anti-Franco resistance. She has worked in an advisory capacity with the Partido Comunista de España (PCE) and subsequently with the Parliamentary Education Commissions of Izquierda Unida (IU). She is President of the Fundación por la Escuela Pública Angel Díaz Zamorano of one of the leading teacher unions (CCOO).