He received a Doctor of Literature for his outstanding service to the University and outstanding contributions to education in New Zealand and internationally.

Professor Snook established and chaired the first Massey University human ethics committee, and led the development of the University's code of ethics for human subject research.

For the past 20 years he also convened the Education Policy Response Group, an ad hoc group of academic staff from across the College of Education that meets to prepare analyses of major government education policy. Its most recent report was on charter schools.

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