{"id":798,"date":"2011-07-29T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T09:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=798"},"modified":"2011-07-29T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T09:08:01","slug":"new-schools-programme-backed-by-dfid-and-dfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/07\/29\/new-schools-programme-backed-by-dfid-and-dfe\/","title":{"rendered":"New Schools Programme backed by DFID and DfE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think Global <a href=\"http:\/\/www.think-global.org.uk\/news\/item.asp?n=13135\">reports<\/a> that the Secretary of State for International Development has announced a new schools programme around development education which is \"supported by the Secretary of State for Education\".\u00a0 It seems that this will involve working with schools in England at Key Stages 2 and 3, supporting teachers who have particular skills in teaching global issues to share best practice with other teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Although Think Global has talked this up, it doesn't seem anything to get excited about, and I do wonder just \u00a0what \"supported\" by the Secretary of State for Education will actually mean on the ground; not much, I suspect. \u00a0And, more importantly, will any of this be about sustainability in the fullest, joined-up sense, as opposed to a very narrow focus on \"building awareness of global poverty\"\u00a0\u2013 and on DfID's own splendid work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Global reports that the Secretary of State for International Development has announced a new schools programme around development education which is \"supported by the Secretary of State for Education\".\u00a0 It seems that this will involve working with schools in...<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}