Organisation

Brief Summary of Project

Amount Awarded 

Period of
 Funding

Africa Bookcase

GEMINI – a feasibility study into the possibility of widespread, centrally organised, internet school linking: over two years the project will develop, test & evaluate the Gemini software using 52 schools, 26 in the UK and 26 in Africa to produce a highly adaptable, multi-platform communication tool to enable teachers and pupils anywhere to collaborate with other schools abroad on academic projects as well as a comprehensive study into the potential for centralised, internet-based school linking on a wide scale using the Gemini system.

£100,000

2 years

Boys’ Brigade

On The Edge: Aims to work with it’s International Team members - 18-25 year olds - highlighting and exploring the issue of youth marginalisation being undertaken by the Boys' Brigade around the world (including the UK) and challenge members (of the BB) to examine why such projects are necessary.

£69,961

1 year

Centre for International Education and Research (University of Birmingham)

Global Citizenship – The Needs of Teachers & Learners: Research to identify the needs of various participants in schools (teachers, pupils, teacher trainees) in terms of learning and teaching about global citizenship education.

£102,272

2 years

Cheshire DEC 

Bringing the World into the Classroom – working with Cheshire LEA, Teachers & ITE institutions & students: aim is to promote (with the above) global education and dev. Awareness in Cheshire with the focus on ITE students and KS1-4 teachers and an involvement of ‘Southern Voices’ & BMEs.

£150,000

3 years

Cornwall Association for DE (CADE)

The Teacher’s Contribution: The project will establish a pool of 174 teachers (primary & secondary) with expertise in DE who will raise awareness of world poverty in over 60% of Cornwall’s schools (over 8,000 pupils).

£35,361

1 year

Cyfanfyd

Global Youth Work in Wales: Cyfanfyd will work in partnership with the Wales Youth Agency and will target young people and youth work delivery and the policies, institutions and processes they exist within. Key elements include: Curriculum & Policy Dev., Training & professional Dev. For youth services, Youth participation and Networking & information sharing.

£79,400

3 years

DEC Birmingham

Building new Citizenship: engage with groups of KS 3&4 teachers from different parts of the West Midlands in developing learning resources to meet the needs of the Citizenship curriculum and which demonstrate the value in learning from the experiences of ‘building citizenship’ elsewhere in the world.

£164,405

3 years

DEC Birmingham

Enabling Effective Support: West Midlands Phase II

£500,000

5 years

DEP, Manchester

Global Express Phase 3: continuation of the rapid response news initiative which provides teachers with tools that give them confidence to tackle immediate and controversial international issues in the classroom.

£40,000

1 year

General Federation of Trade Unions Educational Trust

Integrating ID and Global Education into Workplace Representative Education: the output of this project is Workplace reps and union officers with sufficient knowledge and confidence to undertake practical action in ID. It will do this by building a global dimension into the Open College Network – accredited GFTU education courses (about 14). An international seminar to share good practice and a tutor-training course to enable trainers to deliver within their own education programmes

£49,000

1 year

Geographical Association 

Valuing Places – exploring global interconnectedness: aimed at Geography teachers within KS 2&3. Valuing places will bring together different groups. It will create a steering group to share via a poster format materials that place the poverty reduction and environment agenda in all English schools.

£180,000

3 years

Islamic Relief

Teachers Research Programme: The research will lead directly to a publication that will help IR focus its development awareness strategy. It is expected that the publication will help others understand the potential for Islamic perspectives on development.

£14,850

1 year

ITDG

Sustainable Design Award (SDA): the project will offer, through materials and support, to AS and A2 level students in England & Wales the chance to enter for a SDA as an integral part of their AS/A2 level coursework. They will have the opportunity to chose a sustainability option based on contexts provided by ITDG and exemplified by the examination boards.

£300,000

3 years

Leeds DEC

Positively Global: will work with schools in the Leeds area, that have links with schools in the South, and project partners based in South Africa and Nicaragua, that have contact with the link schools, to develop activities on globalisation issues in five different curriculum areas. An activity booklet will be produced for each activity and guidance produced for schools.

£55,325

3 years

Leeds DEC

Global School for a Global Future: working in five schools Leeds DEC will recruit 5 Global Dimension co-ordinators who will audit five different curriculum areas, identify opportunities to incorporate a Global Dimension and develop Schemes of Work and Lesson plans for teachers to raise global awareness with young people.

£89,670

1 year

Link Community Development

Global Teachers Millennium Awards: A programme of training and grants for UK Teachers to undertake DE initiatives in schools. The scheme will enrich the curriculum and promote the inclusion of the global dimension in all subject areas and aspects of school life.

£160,129 

3 years

NEAD

Just Business: extend the life of the ‘Just Business’ project for a further two years (as anticipated in the initial proposal).

£110,375

2 years

Open University (in association with World Service Trust at the BBC)

Putting the Global into the Curriculum: the development of a range of on-line courses and resources to primary and secondary teachers aimed at strengthening the teaching and learning of international development issues across the curriculum.

£99,250

1 year

Opinion Leader Research

Research into Perceptions of Television News Coverage of Developing Countries: the principal outcome of this project will be a training resource package which will be widely available to all broadcasters.

£39,245

1 year

Oxfam GB, Save the Children UK & UNICEF UK

DEVELOPING CITIZENSHIP – Global Perspectives to Citizenship Education in secondary school policies and practice 2002 – 2005: the project will initially be developed through work with at least 16 schools in four LEAS in England. Through networking schools and organizations in other parts of the UK will also be able to contribute to and make use of this project. Various workshops, seminars and a major national conference are planned to disseminate learning and experiences from the project.

£299,200

4 years

Population Concern

Teenagers Educating Teenagers World Wide: Using their existing schools programme produce a video and educational pack, from which UK young people will learn about issues of sexual and reproductive health and poverty, from their peers in Southern countries.

£73,962

2 years

SCOTDEC

Developing a Common Understanding of the Global Dimension in Schools: The project is aimed at primary & secondary teachers in Edinburgh & East Lothian to explore with them how they might incorporate a global dimension to their teaching and how it might be shared with others at a school, authority and ultimately, a national level.

£50,000

2 years

Sheffield Film Festival

9th Sheffield International Documentary Festival

£3,500

1 year

Teesside One World Centre

Raising Standards through DA: Aim is to provide evidence that education leading to DA can raise educational standards and attainment. Work intensively in 4 schools in LEAs where little conviction exists. 

£68,785

2 years

Teesside One World Centre

Enabling Effective Support: North East Phase II

£500,000

5 years

The Marlborough Brandt Group

Increase the capacity of teachers to deliver the global dimension of the citizenship curriculum, and thereby encourage young people to put theory into practice through responsible community action. Research, materials and training, schools links, exchange visits etc.

£50,000

1 year

The World Studies Trust

An initiative ‘Bringing the Global Dimension to the Curriculum through Initial Teacher Training’ - The Global Teacher Project (Phase II): One part of a UK-wide, three pronged strategy to influence the way that teachers are trained. Work closely with HEIs and to facilitate the ITT network.

£284,640

4 years

TUC

Promoting Understanding of the Development Agenda by Trade Union workplace Representatives: jointly produce a 2015 booklet and educational resource for TUC’s education programme

£31,200

1 year

University College London

The Global Health Elective –using medical students and young doctors as educators for DA: a 3yr programme to produce a model that will develop medical students understanding of poverty-health relationships in LDCs and the effects on health across the world, through a teaching programme focused around the elective period.

£140,762

3 years

Worldaware 

On going support to their Formal education work including final edition of Global Eye (magazine and internet) and resource centre

£325,000 

2 years

World Education Centre

Educating for Global Citizenship, a training resource for Teachers in Wales

£10,875 

1 year

World Land Trust

Education Booklet on Tropical Forestry Issues to supplement the teaching of Key Stage 3 pupils.

£14,000

1 year