The Evening Standard's education editor and deputy campaigns editor. All views are my own.
Joined February 2009
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Anna Davis retweeted
20 Nov 2024
A sad day as another great reporter (and dear friend) departs
20 Nov 2024
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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20 Nov 2024
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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Anna Davis retweeted
19 Sep 2024
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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19 Aug 2024
Anthony Horowitz: I'm thinking about quitting kids' books over censorship standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ant…
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Anna Davis retweeted
1 Aug 2024
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)
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Prince William's old school to open a new secondary in London standard.co.uk/news/educatio…
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Anna Davis retweeted
18 Jun 2024
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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16 May 2024
London faces more school closures and mergers as birth rate falls standard.co.uk/news/educatio…
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16 Apr 2024
Muslim student loses challenge against ‘prayer ban’ at north London school standard.co.uk/news/london/m…
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Anna Davis retweeted
9 Apr 2024
🇬🇧 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
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#frontpagestoday #UK @standardnews 🇬🇧
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Anna Davis retweeted
22 Mar 2024
✍️@_AnnaDavis: Forget horror; this is one of the most terrifying books I have read
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Anna Davis retweeted
4 Mar 2024
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
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28 Feb 2024
Teachers at Greenwich girls' school strike over colleague's suspension standard.co.uk/news/educatio…
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Anna Davis retweeted
23 Feb 2024
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: bit.ly/49H103l
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Anna Davis retweeted
21 Feb 2024
UCL students set for High Court showdown with university over pandemic disruption standard.co.uk/news/london/u…
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Anna Davis retweeted
20 Feb 2024
📼 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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Anna Davis retweeted
20 Feb 2024
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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Anna Davis retweeted
20 Feb 2024
#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
🎧pod.fo/e/21f28a
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Education secretary praises headteacher at centre of prayer ban row as 'fantastic' standard.co.uk/news/educatio…
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29 Jan 2024
London schools at risk of closure as families flee the capital, report warns | Evening Standard standard.co.uk/news/london-s…
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