Freddie Whittaker is the editor of national education newspaper Schools Week. He was previously its deputy and political editor, covering politics and policy issues for the newspaper as well as a number of other areas including industrial relations, school funding and children's rights. Freddie trained as a journalist on the Gloucester Citizen where he spent four years writing about local government, environment and education issues. He then served as the Oxford Mail's political reporter before joining FE Week in 2014. Following Schools Week's launch later that year, Freddie began writing for both publications. He moved to the Schools Week team full time in August 2015, and became the paper’s political reporter in January 2016, its chief reporter in 2017 and its deputy editor in 2022.