HEADLINES: The new Masters in Teaching and Learning: a burden for new teachers or useful professional development? See articles. Your views welcome.

Also: Is creativity still as urgently needed in schools as was claimed 10 years ago by All Our Futures? See articles.

And: was Mrs Thatcher right all along about the national curriculum? Is it too broad and prescriptive? See articles.

Mike Baker is an award-winning freelance journalist , broadcaster, and education expert who spent 18 years as the BBC's education correspondent on TV and radio. He is the CIPR National Education Journalist of the Year, 2008.

He is a columnist for the BBC and The Guardian, broadcasts regularly on BBC radio, and is presenter and anchor for several series on Teachers' TV.

Mike is a highly experienced chair and facilitator of conferences, workshops and awards ceremonies, and offers media training, especially to education clients (for testimonials see below right).

His clients include: the Royal Shakespeare Company, UCAS, The British Council, The Training and Development Agency, Cambridge Assessment, the CBI, Neil Stewart Associates, EdComs, Goldsmiths College, Communications Management and the Royal Veterinary College. For more see 'Biography'.

Up-date: The latest series of Need To Know is now running on Teachers TV. Topics include: the Primary Review and Childrens' Trusts. See blog page.

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'Mike Baker...is one of the best journalists in any specialism around today. He specialises in taking a very complex series of events and making sense of them for anybody to read. Perhaps more importantly, he leaves it up to the reader, listener or viewer to make up their own mind about the truth of the matter,having given them both a truly objective diagnosis and a list of the challenges they should consider'.

Judges in the CIPR Educational Journalism Awards, 2006.