Caroline St John-Brooks

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Dr Caroline St. John-Brooks (24 March 1947 in Oxford – 8 September 2003 in London) was an

academic.[1]

Biography

She gained a

Bristol University in 1980. After graduation, she worked as an English lecturer for eight years, first in Ireland, where she was also an education writer for the Irish Times, and then at Bristol Polytechnic.[1]

In 1979, she became Education Correspondent for the magazine

Times Educational Supplement
(TES) in 1990.

Between 1994 and 1997, she worked as an education researcher at the OECD in Paris; publications include Schools Under Scrutiny (1995), Mapping the Future: Young People and Career Guidance (1996) and Parents as Partners in Schooling (1997).

She returned to the

Times Educational Supplement as Editor in 1997 and remained until 2000, when ill health forced her to resign. In three-and-a-half years she had modernised and expanded the paper, with new magazine sections appealing to the women who now predominated in education.[2] From 2001 until her death she was a Governor of the University of Greenwich. She was also a member of the British-American Project
.

She died of breast cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London in September 2003, aged 56.

References

  1. ^ a b Wendy Berliner (12 September 2003). "Obituary: Caroline St John-Brooks". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Caroline St John-Brooks". The Times. London. 10 September 2003. Retrieved 7 May 2008.

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