Phil Beadle

Phil Beadle is an English teacher in a school in Croydon. He has a career average of about 85% A - C passes in English Language GCSE, though this is likely to go down this year. His mass market book for parents 'Could do Better' was notably less mass market than the publishers intended, and is currently being translated into Chinese and Latvian!

He has written a column, 'On Teaching' for the Guardian newspaper for several years and is currently working on 'How to be a Great Teacher: a Handbook for NQTs'. Phil is perceived in some quarters as an iconoclastic scourge of educational policy makers, and in others as an over-hyped south London chancer.

He has been on telly several times, (including Richard and Judy - twice).