Ian Pieter Schagen 1947–2025

Ian Schagen, who was known for his significant contributions to the analysis of statistical data relating to education, died on 20 January 2025, aged 77.Ian was born in 1947 in Zaandam, the Netherlands, and moved to England when he was 5 years old.He gained his degree in Natural Sciences and Mathematics from Cambridge in 1968.After graduating from Cambridge, he worked for BP and was one of a team who identified a major oil field by desk analysis of geological survey data.He gained an MSc in Statistics with distinction from Birkbeck University of London in 1974.After leaving BP in 1977, he became a lecturer in Statistics at Loughborough University, where he also achieved his PhD in Statistics.Though successful there, in 1986, the family decided to move South in connection with the work of his wife Sandie (nee Kirby), who was training as a church