- Mike Baker (journalist)
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Mike Baker (born 1957) was the BBC's Education Correspondent from 1989 until 2007. Before that he was a BBC Political Correspondent from 1980 to 1989. He also spent brief periods as a Foreign Correspondent and Deputy Home News Editor at the BBC. Baker is currently a regular columnist for BBC News Online, The Education Guardian, and the Education Journal. He has presented several series of programmes on Teachers TV.[1]
Baker's publications include Who Rules Our Schools (Hodder & Stoughton) and A Parents' Guide to the New Curriculum (BBC Books). He was the first journalist to be appointed Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education. Baker has held a Michigan journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan and was a Reuters Fellow at Green College, Oxford. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the College of Teachers and was the CIPR Education Journalist of the Year in 2008.[2]
References
- ^ "Q&A Mike Baker". General Teaching Council for England. 2008-01-31. http://www.gtce.org.uk/newsfeatures/features/mike_baker_mag_spring08. Retrieved 2008-12-20.[dead link]
- ^ "Media focus on standards 'good for education'" (Press release). Institute of Education, University of London. 2006-01-17. http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=1397&1397_1=13358. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
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