Mike Baker (journalist)
Michael Baker (16 February 1957 – 22 September 2012)[1][2] was a British journalist best known for his work with the [[BTS))
Educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School in Essex and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he joined the BBC on their graduate trainee scheme in 1980.[3] He was the Corporation's Education Correspondent from 1989 until 2007, when he left the BBC's staff.[2] Before that he was a BBC Political Correspondent from 1980 to 1989 and also spent brief periods as a Foreign Correspondent and Deputy Home News Editor at the BBC. Baker was a regular columnist for BBC News Online, the EducationGuardian, and the Education Journal. He presented several series of programmes on Teachers TV.[4]
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 held a 2000 Michigan Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan and was a Reuters Fellow at Green College, Oxford. He was also an Honorary Fellow of the College of Teachers and was the CIPR Education Journalist of the Year in 2008.[5]
Baker died in September 2012, aged 55. He had been receiving treatment for lung cancer, which he wrote about publicly in his blog.[2]
References
- ↑ Sue Littlemore "Mike Baker obituary", The Guardian, 22 September 2012
- 1 2 3 "Education journalist Mike Baker dies". BBC News Online. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- ↑ "Mike Baker: BBC education correspondent", BBC News Online, 27 May 2004
- ↑ "Q&A Mike Baker". General Teaching Council for England. 2008-01-31. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
- ↑ "Media focus on standards 'good for education'" (Press release). Institute of Education, University of London. 17 January 2006. Archived from the original on 12 May 2006. Retrieved 20 December 2008.