North West Global Education Network

Project Aim

The overall aim of the project is to provide North West teachers with more effective and sustained support for incorporating a global dimension into their teaching, by adopting a more strategic approach to provision of support throughout the region.

This will ultimately, in the long term, enable all children experience the global dimension across all phases of their education across a variety of school activities.

This strategy is founded on the premise that young people are entitled to an education that prepares them for life in today's globalised society. It forms part of the national 'Enabling Effective Support for the Global Dimension in Schools' (Click to download EES document in PDF format) initiative developed and supported by the Department for International Development (DFID).

It is part of this wider national strategy but was developed in the North West chiefly through a consultation with stakeholders, mainly:

• Local Authorities and other bodies with an interest in education - in particular with LEA Advisers known to have an interest in the global dimension to the curriculum.
• Service providers - organisations, groups and individuals providing services to schools, which promote the global dimension in the curriculum.
• Schools - a cross section of schools from across the region were consulted by means of interviews and questionnaires. A number of illustrative case studies were developed showing a range of ways in which teachers are delivering the global dimension in schools.
• Southern* providers - were considered to have a special place in supporting the global dimension in schools. A 'Southern Forum' took place to facilitate consultation and discussion with this group.
  

* The term Southern is used in preference to '3rd World' or 'Developing Country'