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{{Short description|British journalist (1947–2003)}}
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'''Dr Caroline St. John-Brooks''' (24 March 1947 in Oxford &ndash; 8 September 2003 in London) was an [[Anglo-Irish]] [[journalist]] and [[academic]].<ref name="guardian-obit">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1040422,00.html |title=Obituary: Caroline St John-Brooks |author=Wendy Berliner |work=The Guardian  |date=12 September 2003 |access-date=2008-05-07}}</ref>
==Biography==
She gained a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in English Literature from [[Trinity College Dublin]], an [[Master of Arts|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 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.<ref name="guardian-obit" />
In 1979, she became Education Correspondent for the magazine ''[[New Society]]'', and moved to the same position at ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|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]] 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.<ref name="times-obit">{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1157136.ece |title=Obituary: Caroline St John-Brooks |work=The Times  |date=10 September 2003 |access-date=2008-05-07 | location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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.
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312073324/http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/127041.smil 1999 RTE interview with Caroline St. John-Brooks.]
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