Tuesday, February 23, 2010

BRITISH COUNCIL, GES ORGANISE WORKSHOP FOR 60 TEACHERS (PAGE 17, JAN 11, 2010)

THE British Council, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES), has organised a workshop on the Department for International Development (DFID) Global School Partnerships (DGSP) for 60 teachers selected from the Sunyani Municipality in the Brong Ahafo Region.
The DGSP programme sought to promote links between schools in the United Kingdom (UK) and those in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The three-year programme which started in 2003 provided opportunities and grants to schools that were using partnerships as a means of developing global education within their curriculum.
Under the programme, schools in over 100 countries benefited from advice, guidance and grants, as well as in-country support.
The DGSP promotes partnerships which are educational, equality-based, inclusive, sustainable, and engaged the wider community.
It aimed at enabling young people to learn about themselves and their responsibilities as global citizens in the context of a diverse, complex and interdependent world, through joint curricular work with a partner school.
The Programme Coordinator, Ms Bridget Konadu Gyamfi, who briefed the Daily Graphic about the DGSP in Sunyani, disclosed that 370 grants had been awarded to school partnerships between UK schools and 43 southern countries, and explained that the partnerships had become a means of raising awareness among learners on global education.
The Programme Co-ordinator disclosed also that 270 partnerships had so far been formed in the 10 regions in Ghanaand that a total of 30 were to be formed in the Brong Ahafo Region.
She said through joint curriculum works to be undertaken by schools in partnerships, each of the beneficiary schools ended up in enriching its curriculum.
He indicated further that after partnerships had been formed, schools could access Global Curriculum Project Grants from the British Council to support their partnership activities.
The grants, she said, included reciprocal and global partnership visits which attracted £2,000 and £6,000 per partnership respectively, saying that the programme was beneficial, since it sought to broaden the scope and horizon of learners who were more or less limited to only what pertained in their localities.
Again, Ms Gyamfi explained that the DGSP supported teachers to upgrade their knowledge and skills through what she termed teacher accreditation and professional development modular workshops.

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