Warwick Mansell
Freelance education journalist and writer/editor of Education Uncovered
As an education journalist since 1997, Warwick has investigated and written about all aspects of schools reform. His areas of specialism have ranged from the effects of the accountability system to the implications of England’s academies policy.
Having started his career in 1995 on the Cambridge Evening News, Warwick then spent nine years covering schools policy at the Times Educational Supplement. He went freelance in 2009 and has had articles published in a range of national media, including more than 250 pieces in the Guardian and Observer.
He wrote the Guardian’s education diary between 2012 and 2017.
He was shortlisted for the Private Eye/Guardian Paul Foot award for investigative journalism in 2008; in 2018 won the National Union of Teachers’ Fred and Anne Jarvis award for education campaigning; and in 2024 was the inaugural winner of the Socialist Educational Association’s award for outstanding investigative journalism.
Warwick is a regular speaker and panellist at conferences.
He has a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Wadham College, Oxford and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from Cardiff University.
His two children, currently going through secondary school, are providing Warwick with fresh insights into the day-to-day reality of English classrooms. He lives with them and his wife, in London.
Books
Warwick is a co-author of The New Political Economy of Teacher Education: The Enterprise Narrative and the Shadow State published in 2024. His first book Education by Numbers: The Tyranny of Testing was published in 2007 and charts the impact of results pressures on schools.
