Michael Baker (16 February 1957 – 22 September 2012)[1][2] was a British journalist best known for his work with theBBC.
Educated atColchester Royal Grammar School in Essex andEmmanuel 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 aforeign correspondent and deputy home news editor at the BBC. Baker was a regular columnist forBBC News Online, theEducationGuardian, and theEducation Journal. He presented several series of programmes onTeachers TV.[4]
Baker's publications includeWho Rules Our Schools (Hodder & Stoughton) andA Parents' Guide to the New Curriculum (BBC Books). He was the first journalist to be appointedvisiting professor at theInstitute of Education. Baker held a 2000Michigan Journalism Fellowship atthe University of Michigan and was aReuters Fellow atGreen College, Oxford. He was also anHonorary Fellow of theCollege of Teachers and was theCIPR Education Journalist of the Year in 2008.[5]
Baker died in September 2012, aged 55. He had been receiving treatment forlung cancer, which he wrote about publicly in his blog.[2]
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