DFID Global School Partnerships

DFID Global School Partnerships promotes partnerships between schools in the UK and schools in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. The programme provides advice and guidance, professional development opportunities and grants to schools that are using partnerships as a means to develop and embed a global dimension within their curriculum.

The grants programme provides schools with the opportunity to develop their partnerships through reciprocal visits and curriculum development activity. Schools in the UK can apply for the following grants:

• Reciprocal Visit - grants of up to £1,900 for visits to each partner school to enable teachers to plan joint curricular projects with global dimension theme.
• Global Curriculum Project - grants of up to £5,400 per year of up to three years to enable teacher travel and curriculum development for established partnerships to do joint curricular projects with global dimension themes.
• Travel grants - of £2,800 for students of secondary school age in years 2 and 3 of the Global Curriculum Project grant.

More detailed information, including guidelines

• The World Classroom, Developing Global Partnerships in Education(806 kb)
• Developing the global dimension in the school curriculum(522 kb)
• The Global Dimension in the Curriculum - Learning and Teaching Scotland

Last updated: 30 May 2007