Global Citizenship

December 12th, 2012

Study in the USA

nickmorgan

Comments: none Tags: Tags: higher education
 : Categories international, united states

The Sutton Trust is inviting applications for its innovative ‘US Programme‘, which gives bright state school students a taster experience of what undergraduate study at an American university offers. The programme completed a successful pilot year in 2011/12, and the Trust is now expanding the programme.

The initiative is centred on a one-week summer school in the USA, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Yale University, with introductory preparatory events and support for the application process. The programme involves participants in activities which help them understand the experience of being in US Higher Education and inform their thinking and decision-making. The Sutton Trust also provides other benefits to participants, such as covering costs for the residential events, travel and accommodation.

To be eligible to apply, Scottish students must be in S5 of secondary education or in college, and meet some other criteria. Preference will be given to students from low to middle income backgrounds, the first generation in their family to go to university, and who will make the most of the opportunity.

Full details are available on the Trust website and the deadline for applications is Monday 18th February 2013.

September 26th, 2011

The History of White People – opportunity for schools

mfarrell

Comments: none Tags:  : Categories africa, citizenship, CPD, international, religious and moral education, secondary schools, social studies, united states

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

To mark Black History Month in the UK, a leading African American historian asks why white people became white.

Scottish schools offering Higher and Advanced Higher courses on Civil Rights in the US are being encouraged to attend and already around 50 pupils from schools across Scotland have signed up!

On October 11, Nell Irvin Painter, Professor Emerita at Princeton and Fulbright Visiting Professor in the UK will be giving a public lecture at the University of Edinburgh.  Prof. Painter is a leading expert on the history of race and race relations in the US and beyond. Her lecture is titled ‘The History of White People’ and historicises the concept of whiteness in western thought. This is a free, but ticketed event. 

Doors open at 5.30pm.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM (GMT)

Teviot Lecture Theatre

Doorway 5, Old Medical School

Teviot Place

EH8 9AG Edinburgh

United Kingdom

The University of Edinburgh

Register for this event now at :

http://edinburgh-university-72-rss.eventbrite.com

Please note:

This event may be photographed and/or recorded for promotional or recruitment materials for the University or University approved third parties.

For any further information contact: Anna Moslow, Anna.Moslow@ed.ac.uk or Frank Cogliano f.cogliano@ed.ac.uk

October 6th, 2009

School partnership working

nickmorgan

Comments: none Tags:  : Categories europe, ICT, international, united states

Two more examples of International Education in Scottish schools, where they engage in collaborative work with overseas partner schools to benefit the learning of their pupils:

Glaitness School in Orkney has a good blog which describes the range of activity going on; for example, a link being developed with a school high up in the Rocky Mountains of the USA, a very different environment from the home of the Orkney children.

And Meldrum Primary in Aberdeenshire is featured in a TESS article this week which focuses on their EU Comenius school partnership project with schools in Germany, Spain, Slovenia and Slovakia.

Both schools using a variety of means to expose their children to the wider world and the place of Scotland and Scots within it.

August 4th, 2009

Teaching abroad

nickmorgan

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An article entitled ‘From Renfrew to Riyadh’ in last week’s ‘Times Educational Supplement’ Scottish edition focuses on the benefits of teaching overseas, using the examples of Scots working in International Schools in the Netherlands, Italy and Saudi Arabia.

Two exhibitors at this year’s Scottish Learning Festival offer other opportunities for Scots excited by the prospect of a period teaching in another country. Voluntary Service Overseas offers volunteer placements of between 12-24 months for experienced teachers and managers, usually in Asia, Africa and South America. And the VIF Program recruits teachers for schools in a number of US States on paid contracts. SLF 2009 provides an opportunity to speak to both organisations and find out more.

May 17th, 2009

Writers in Schools

nickmorgan

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The Scottish Book Trust is running a CPD event for teachers and librarians about ‘Writers in Schools in Scotland and Chicago’. Authors Elspeth Murray and Amanda Lichtenstein will describe the types of work they do with pupils, including inspiring pupils to write and running creative literacy projects, and contrast their experiences of working in schools in Scotland and the USA.

This free event is on Tuesday 16th June 2009, from 1700-1830 pm, at SBT’s base in Edinburgh. It will be suitable for P3-P7 classroom teachers, secondary English teachers and librarians. Contact Chris Newton at SBT to book a place. chris.newton@scottishbooktrust.com

January 20th, 2009

Barack Obama inauguration

nickmorgan

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The BBC news story “Pupils witness Obama inauguration” covers the visit of two Dundee City school students to Washington D.C. The pupils from St.Paul’s RC Academy will observe the ceremony at which Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States of America.