Mr Mike Baker
Doctor of Education (HonDEd)
Year conferred: 2011
Mike Baker is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and ‘blogger’ specialising in UK and international education policy. Formerly Senior Education Correspondent for the BBC, he now writes a regular column for the BBC News website and the Guardian. He has twice been UK Education Journalist of the Year.
He is a former visiting professor at the Institute of Education, and has held fellowships at the Universities of Oxford and Michigan.
His books include: Who Rules Our Schools, A Parents’ Guide to the New Curriculum, and Does Education Get the Media It Deserves? He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Teachers. Mike was educated at state schools and Cambridge University, and has an MA in History from Kingston University.
