BAKER Mike
Education Broadcaster, Journalist and Author
Session: Plenary - Pluralism / Plenary - Sustainability
Monday, 16 November 2009
- 16.00-17.30
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
- 9.00-10.30
Mike is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster specialising in education. He is a regular columnist and analyst for The BBC News Website and The Guardian. He is also the presenter for several programme series on Teachers TV and is regularly heard on BBC Radio.
Mike has recently written and presented a three-part series on the history of primary schools on BBC Radio 4 (2009). He also devised and presented ‘School’s Out’, a six-part series on global vocational education for BBC World TV (2008).
Before starting a successful freelance career, Mike spent 27 years as a correspondent at BBC News. From 1989-2007 he was the BBC’s Education Correspondent, covering all the big national stories for TV, radio and online.
His previous roles at the BBC included: Political Correspondent, Foreign Correspondent, Deputy Home News Editor, and Graduate Trainee.
He was been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, and has held fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Michigan. He has written articles for academic journals including Critical Quarterly and the British Journal of Educational Studies.
Mike has published several books on education, including ‘Who Rules Our Schools’, ‘A Parents’ Guide to the New Curriculum’, and ‘Does Education Get the Media It Deserves?’.
He was UK Education Journalist of the Year (2008 and 2002) and won the Ted Wragg Lifetime Award for education journalism (2006).
He is on the Nuffield Trust Education Advisory Committee, is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Teachers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a Trustee of the National Education Trust and Villiers Park Education Trust.
Mike provides consultancy and media training to the education sector. His clients include Cambridge Assessment, Communications Management, Goldsmiths College, Coventry University, Southampton Solent University, the Royal Veterinary College and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
He has chaired well over 100 education conferences, events and awards evenings over the past few years, including major annual conferences for the DCSF, UCAS, The British Council, the Training and Development Agency, and Neil Stewart Associates.
Mike was educated at state schools and Cambridge University (BA Hons. English Literature). He has an Advanced Diploma in Local History from Oxford University and an MA from Kingston University.
He writes a regular education blog at: http://www.mikebakereducation.co.uk
Mike has recently written and presented a three-part series on the history of primary schools on BBC Radio 4 (2009). He also devised and presented ‘School’s Out’, a six-part series on global vocational education for BBC World TV (2008).
Before starting a successful freelance career, Mike spent 27 years as a correspondent at BBC News. From 1989-2007 he was the BBC’s Education Correspondent, covering all the big national stories for TV, radio and online.
His previous roles at the BBC included: Political Correspondent, Foreign Correspondent, Deputy Home News Editor, and Graduate Trainee.
He was been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, and has held fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Michigan. He has written articles for academic journals including Critical Quarterly and the British Journal of Educational Studies.
Mike has published several books on education, including ‘Who Rules Our Schools’, ‘A Parents’ Guide to the New Curriculum’, and ‘Does Education Get the Media It Deserves?’.
He was UK Education Journalist of the Year (2008 and 2002) and won the Ted Wragg Lifetime Award for education journalism (2006).
He is on the Nuffield Trust Education Advisory Committee, is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Teachers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a Trustee of the National Education Trust and Villiers Park Education Trust.
Mike provides consultancy and media training to the education sector. His clients include Cambridge Assessment, Communications Management, Goldsmiths College, Coventry University, Southampton Solent University, the Royal Veterinary College and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
He has chaired well over 100 education conferences, events and awards evenings over the past few years, including major annual conferences for the DCSF, UCAS, The British Council, the Training and Development Agency, and Neil Stewart Associates.
Mike was educated at state schools and Cambridge University (BA Hons. English Literature). He has an Advanced Diploma in Local History from Oxford University and an MA from Kingston University.
He writes a regular education blog at: http://www.mikebakereducation.co.uk
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