{"id":1612,"date":"2012-03-27T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2012-03-27T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:16:35","slug":"dfid-rediscovers-its-interest-in-schools-and-a-pot-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/03\/27\/dfid-rediscovers-its-interest-in-schools-and-a-pot-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"DfID rediscovers its interest in schools \u2013 and a pot of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think Global reports today on DFID plans to fund a <em>Global Learning Programme for England<\/em> which will<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cincrease and improve the teaching and learning, at Key Stages 2 and 3, of issues related to global poverty\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The programme will run, initially, for 5 years, it seems, with an eye-popping budget of some \u00a317-20m. \u00a0The windfall, I presume, is to count as overseas development, with the usual sub-text that this is actually money to buy popular support for DfID policies. \u00a0Imagine if the MoD did this. <strong>[1]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No details are available yet on what this\u00a0<em>education for global poverty<\/em> will comprise, but a couple of questions are in order:<\/p>\n<p>1. will broader issues of sustainability have to be included to warrant funding?<\/p>\n<p>2. is the TDA on board, given that a lot of this money must be going into teacher training?<\/p>\n<p>3. when it says, \"terms of reference have been developed in consultation with the Department for Education\", what does this actually mean?<\/p>\n<p>More on all this, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[1] <\/strong>Actually I did this a while <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2010\/07\/11\/mod-to-set-up-defence-awareness-programmes-in-schools\/\">back<\/a>, though all the quotes are from DfID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Global reports today on DFID plans to fund a Global Learning Programme for England which will \u201cincrease and improve the teaching and learning, at Key Stages 2 and 3, of issues related to global poverty\u201d. The programme will run,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}