Anna Davis
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The Evening Standard's education editor and deputy campaigns editor. All views are my own.
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Joined February 2009
A sad day as another great reporter (and dear friend) departs
I am leaving the Evening Standard after 18 years. What an amazing time it has been being part of this team. There is nothing like a newsroom. I leave with the best memories and friends and hope the Standard goes from strength to strength. Now for the next chapter…
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I am leaving the Evening Standard after 18 years. What an amazing time it has been being part of this team. There is nothing like a newsroom. I leave with the best memories and friends and hope the Standard goes from strength to strength. Now for the next chapter…
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An honour, a privilege and a great sadness to send the final front page of the Evening Standard to press this morning. Messy desk essential. @standardnews
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Anthony Horowitz: I'm thinking about quitting kids' books over censorship
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Anthony Horowitz is one of our most successful authors, but he is not sure if he can continue to write children’s books because of attacks on artistic freedom, he tells Anna Davis
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WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is free. This is a day of great joy and relief for Evan, his family, WSJ colleagues, and all those who campaigned so hard for his release. It is also a great day for press freedom. Follow the story here (no paywall) https://t.co/nUpj2HeCSR
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Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of a major prisoner swap. The reporter and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for...
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Prince William's old school to open a new secondary in London
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Wetherby Pembridge to open in Kensington Olympia next year
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Controlling and coercive behaviour is all too common for many schoolgirls with boyfriends today. Talia Kensit tells @_AnnaDavis how she set about tackling it
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Controlling and coercive behaviour is all too common for many schoolgirls with boyfriends today. Talia Kensit tells Anna Davis how she set about tackling it
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London faces more school closures and mergers as birth rate falls
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Demands for places falls amid fears over birth rate
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Muslim student loses challenge against ‘prayer ban’ at north London school
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The Muslim pupil brought a legal challenge against the north London school over its allegedly discriminatory policy
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🇬🇧 School's Out: The Truancy Crisis ▫The Standard reveals the ‘monumental efforts’ schools across the capital are making to bring children back to the classroom ▫@_AnnaDavis ▫ https://t.co/kcQwwVDOJP
#frontpagestoday #UK @standardnews 🇬🇧
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✍️@_AnnaDavis: Forget horror; this is one of the most terrifying books I have read https://t.co/YJfgN1lh4T
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Forget horror; this is one of the most terrifying books I have read. We all know our phones aren’t great for us, but Jonathan Haidt sets out their true cost in such excruciating detail you will want...
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Jeremy Hunt must pay nurseries the actual amount it costs to deliver “free” places, warns @savechildrenuk Thanks to @_AnnaDavis for highlighting issues around gov's free childcare hours and how Chancellor has the chance to make changes at #SpringStatement
https://t.co/apWVAoW2sH
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Free childcare plan ‘not even close to being workable’ early years leaders warn
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Teachers at Greenwich girls' school strike over colleague's suspension
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Parents say uncertainty surrounding ‘excessive’ strikes, which began in November, has left them anxious and frustrated
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With data revealing that more than a quarter of secondary school pupils in parts of London regularly fail to attend, I spoke to @_annadavis @eveningstandard on the persistent issue of school absenteeism. Read here:
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Education leaders have called for schools to re-think the way they tackle persistent absence
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UCL students set for High Court showdown with university over pandemic disruption
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Around 5,000 students are bringing a legal action against UCL over claims their education was disrupted by the pandemic and strikes
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📼 The declining number of children in the capital is threatening London's schools. But why is this happening and how could it lead to "ghost schools"? @_AnnaDavis explains
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School closures are creating “ghost areas” across London as so many families with children are leaving #frontpage It comes after new research revealed that 8,000 fewer children will need school places in London over the next four years
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#TheStandardPodcast How London's school ‘ghost areas’ destroy communities Headteacher’s warning as families leave city Councils blame low birth rate, Brexit, Covid, cost-of-living Plus! Phones crackdown Insight with ES education editor @_AnnaDavis 🎧 https://t.co/wVRERB2YCV
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Education secretary praises headteacher at centre of prayer ban row as 'fantastic'
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Gillian Keegan backs headteachers' right to make policies for their own schools
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London schools at risk of closure as families flee the capital, report warns | Evening Standard
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