Follow the latest education news and analysis here. Mike Baker is an award-winning freelance journalist, broadcaster, conference facilitator, and education consultant. He was the BBC's education editor for nearly 20 years and is now a columnist for The Education Guardian. He has twice won the UK Education Journalist of the Year Award and this website won the Best Online Education Commentary Award 2011.

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 Latest education news on blog page: 

  • NEW: Ofsted says 'satisfactory' is now unsatisfactory and in future schools will be termed 'requires improvement'. see blog.

  • In his guest article, Roy Blatchford, peers into his 2012 crystal ball and foresees the 'app curriculum'. See 'articles'.

  • Examiners give their side of the GCSE 'cheating' allegations.

  • Winners of the Education Journalism Awards announced at the House of Commons.

  • OFFA allows 25 universities to cut their fees to below £7,500 but at the cost of spending on bursaries and scholarships to support students while they study.

 

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More about Mike Baker:

Mike is an award-winning education journalist and broadcaster. After a 27 year career at the BBC, he now writes a regular column for The Education Guardian and continues to broadcast as a freelance. He  chairs numerous education conferences, has been a member of several advisory bodies, and is a trustee of two education charities. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Education by Oxford Brookes University in 2011. 

 For more see 'Biography'.