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

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and

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Biography

She gained a BA in English Literature from

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, an MA in Education from the

University of Ulster sco, Ulstèr Universitie , image = Ulster University coat of arms.png , caption = , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , latin_name = Universitas Ulidiae , established = 1865 – Magee College 1953 - Magee Un ...

at Coleraine, and a PhD in the teaching of English in secondary schools from 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. In 1979, she became Education Correspondent for the magazine ''

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'', and moved to the same position at ''

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'' in 1987. She became Assistant Editor of the ''

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'' (TES) in 1990. Between 1994 and 1997, she worked as an education researcher at the

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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 ''

'' 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. From 2001 until her death she was a Governor of the

University of Greenwich , mottoeng = "To learn, to do, to achieve" , former_name = Woolwich Polytechnic(1890–1970)Thames Polytechnic(1970–1992) , established = , type = Public university , budget = £214.9 million (2020) , administrative_staff = , chancel ...

. She was also a member of the

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. She died of

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at the

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in September 2003, aged 56.

References

External links

1999 RTE interview with Caroline St. John-Brooks.
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