Caroline St John-Brooks
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Dr Caroline St. John-Brooks (March 24, 1947 – September 8, 2003) was a British journalist and academic.
She gained a BA in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Education from the University of Ulster at Coleraine, and a PhD in the teaching of English in secondary schools from Bristol University.
In 1979 she became Education Correspondent for the magazine New Society, and moved to the same position at The Sunday Times in 1987.
She became Assistant Editor of the Times Educational Supplement (TES) in 1990.
Between 1994 and 1997 she worked as an education researcher at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) 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.
She died of breast cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London in September 2003.
