GCE UK Annual Review

Global Campaign for Education UK

2010

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Front cover picture: Girls at school in Sabiyel, northern Nigeria.

Photo credit: Martin Godwin/GCE

61,000 1,000s &

1,000s 1,000,000 pupils took part in the schools campaign

of giant supporter scarves arrived at 10 Downing Street

UK adults signed up to 1GOAL

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9,000 schools signed up to do ‘1GOAL – Send My Friend to School’

MPs visited schools

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MPs joined a new parliamentary group on Education for All

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Cabinet Ministers went back to schools in their constituencies for special 1GOAL

Secretary of State for International Development attended the 1GOAL Education Summit in South Africa

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Children in Tudun Kose, Sokoto, Nigeria

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Working towards Education for All 2010 marked 10 years since the adoption, by the international community, of both the Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals. While much has been achieved, millions of children, young people and adults in the world are still denied their right to an education.

The focus on education surrounding the FIFA World Cup in South Africa presented the Global Campaign for Education UK with a unique opportunity to grow community interest and political support.

Endorsements from some of the nation’s favourite footballers helped to build on the success of the Send My Friend to School campaign in UK schools.The campaign broke all records with 9,000 schools taking part in 2010.

8.3 million Photo Credit: Martin Godwin/GCE

children are out of school in Nigeria alone

Prior to the General Election, the campaign launched ‘Education for All: a call for UK action’ to set out what the UK should do to play its part in securing education for millions around the world. Knowing that following the election there would be a substantial new intake of MPs, work was stepped up to increase visibility of the

campaign within Parliament. One of the goals for the year was to create an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), which was successfully launched in October.

In September, the UN Millennium Development Review Summit was held in New York. With just 5 years to meet the target for universal primary education, and 69 million children still out of school, new momentum and new announcements of funding were vitally needed.

Although nearly 140 world leaders were at the UN summit, including Nick Clegg our Deputy Prime Minister, the outcome of the Summit was disappointing. Much more remains to be done; world leaders are still only giving a quarter of the funds needed to provide Education For All and at the current rate of progress there will be more than 50 million children out of school in 2015.

This document looks in more detail at the campaign’s achievements in 2010 and provides an overview of our future priorities.

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When I received 20 letters from Class P at Hayfield School and another letter from the sixth-form girls at Upton Hall School, I knew I had to make my maiden speech in this debate [on global poverty].

Esther McVey, Conservative MP for Wirral West

Photo Credit: Mark Chilvers/GCE

From left to right: Nigel Evans MP, Gary Lineker, Pamela Nash MP, Danielle Lineker and Mark Williams MP at the 1GOAL parliamentary event

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Working with parliamentarians

Vince Cable M P, Business S ecreta visiting Wal degrave Schoo ry, l, Twickenham

One of the aims of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is to raise greater awareness within Parliament of the factors affecting the provision of education globally.

By working with politicians from all parties the GCE aims to hold the UK Government to its’ obligations towards securing the education related Millennium Development and Education for All Goals.

During 2010 the joint impact of the schools campaign and the parliamentary work was clear to see; over 100 MPs visited schools in their constituencies, which resulted in a very notable increase in the level of awareness of this issue and interest by politicians from all parties.

There were a number of mentions of the campaign within parliamentary debates and a high turnout of MPs at the two GCE parliamentary events that were held.

In September, to tie in with the 1 GOAL campaign, Gary and Dani Lineker spoke to an audience of 37 MPs about their passion to see a world in which all children have a quality education. Many in the audience were new MPs and were photographed with the Linekers to spread the word within their own constituency.

The result of this work is that for the first time an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Education for All has now been formed.The APPG, chaired

by Tony Baldry MP, currently has 32 members.The formation of this group marks a significant achievement and means a dedicated group of politicians are actively working to champion the UK’s commitment and delivery on Education For All.

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MPs attended ‘1GOAL – Send My Friend to School’ events in their constituencies

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Working with Schools Every year the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) creates cross-curricular learning resources to enable pupils in the UK to learn about their peers in the developing world who miss out on the chance to go to school.These help to inspire and motivate them to become active global citizens and remind the Prime Minister to keep the promise made by world leaders of universal primary education by 2015.

This year the UK schools campaign, ‘1 GOAL – Send My Friend to School’, tied in closely with the international theme of the World Cup. Over 200 famous footballers backed the campaign helping to inspire a staggering 1 million pupils in 9,000 schools to take part.

Pupils were invited to show their support by creating and signing giant supporter

scarves to send to the new Prime Minister ahead of the Millennium Development Talks in September. Schools were highly creative; scarves were made out of all sorts of materials; a 120 metre paper scarf; a 72 metre finger knitted scarf (each metre representing 1 million children out of school), and a sari scarf using red and white to represent England, were amongst some of the thousands of scarves that made their way to David Cameron and No.10.

Free learning resources, including a DVD and lesson ideas, support young people to speak up and be a voice for change.

World Cup assemblies, penalty shoot outs, presentations to MPs and visits from local footballers were some of the activities that schools organised to communicate the issue to fellow pupils and the wider local community, so helping to gain widespread support for 1GOAL.

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The campaign has opened up the eyes of all the students at Bedale High School.

The experience was so good that I’m determined to not stop supporting the campaign until every child has the opportunity of education.

Emma Woods, 15, Head Girl at Bedale High School in Yorkshire

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I have used the teaching resources for the past couple of years and think they are excellent...they have highlighted issues in a way I couldn’t have done without them.

Cherryl Maltby, teacher at Armthorpe School in Doncaster

The giant supp orter scarf at St Hughs Schoo l, Lincolnshire Photo Credit: Mark Chilvers/GCE

William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary, at Bedale High School, Yorkshire

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Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development

Photo Credit: Mark Chilvers/GCE

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Secretary of State for International Development attended the 1GOAL Summit in South Africa

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Quality education for all offers a vital route to prosperity for poor countries, with the greatest dividends coming from educating girls.

Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development

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Working with decision makers In addition to its awareness and campaigning work,The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) acts as an umbrella organization for UK civil society organizations with an interest in education in the developing world. Regular meetings are held with both Ministers and officials from the Department for International Development (DfID) to monitor their work and to provide advice and guidance on the UK’s policies and strategies on education.

The GCE has had good relations with DfID Ministers in successive governments and has influenced the size and shape of the UK’s aid to education sector. The campaign secured an agreement from the then government to develop a detailed education policy. It consequently facilitated a UK wide civil society consultation on behalf of DfID and spoke at the strategy’s launch.

To raise awareness of the issue with the other political parties, the GCE held events at both the Liberal Democrat and Conservative party conferences prior to the election.

In February 2010, the campaign published ‘Education For All – A Call for UK action’ which was launched at a parliamentary event. MPs from all three political parties spoke, including Mike Foster, the then Minister for International Development.

The report is now being used as the basis for the GCE’s ongoing advocacy efforts.

The campaign has successfully established a working relationship with the new Secretary of State and his ministerial colleagues. GCE UK’s policy group recently met with Stephen O’Brien, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, with the aim of clarifying the new government’s support for education.

In September, Andrew Mitchell MP, the Secretary for State for International Development, spoke at the 1GOAL parliamentary event and demonstrated his commitment to global education by travelling to South Africa for the 1GOAL Education Summit.

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A national competition was held for the second year running, the Steve Sinnott Award, to find the campaign’s Young Ambassadors for 2010. Ronan McKenzie and Rhiannon Kruse-Edwards, both 14, travelled to Ghana with the GCE and PLAN International, accompanied by the Education Guardian. On their return the young campaigners conducted a number of media interviews, spoke at conferences and held meetings with politicians.

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In 2010 GCE managed to secure good coverage in all key media. Once again First News, the children’s newspaper, and the Education Guardian were media partners.

There was excellent coverage of the campaign in the educational press and teacher union magazines, which helped to

maximize the target audience. Over 200 media articles have been collected and many more articles were generated by schools across the country, aided by the provision of a press pack.

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The main objective of the Global Campaign for Education’s (GCE’s) media work is to drive teachers and pupils to take part in the schools campaign. It also aims to increase the level of understanding of the global education crisis, including financing education and other barriers to education beyond aid. In addition, it uses the media to comment on UK government policy positions and keep up the pressure on the UK government for them to deliver on their commitments.

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2011 2011 will see the launch of ‘Send My Sister to School’, designed to highlight the barriers to education for girls and women in the global south. Using the ancient art of storytelling, as the basis for their activities and events, pupils in the UK will learn about the reasons why it is often the girls that are the ones who are denied their basic right to an education.

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new teachers are needed annually to meet universal primary education by 2015

Now that the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is formed there are plans for a number of events within Parliament on topics including multilateral funding for education, teachers for EFA, and girls’ and women’s education. An aspiration for the year ahead is to take a delegation of MPs to a developing country and give them firsthand experience of the issue by visiting education programmes, however this is budget dependent.

The Global Campaign for Education will also contribute throughout the year by scrutinising the Department for International Development’s work on education. It will encourage MPs to table parliamentary questions, hold debates and have face-to-face meetings as well as engaging with other parliamentary bodies.

Publicity will continue to highlight and communicate the issue through the media as well as publicising the fantastic campaigning efforts of young campaigners around the country.

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is an international coalition of child rights activists, teachers’ unions and development organisations around the world, united in their determination to make the right to education a reality. In the UK the campaign seeks to increase community awareness of the state of education internationally and generate the political will necessary to ensure the UK plays an active and effective part in efforts to secure education for all.

For more information, please contact Nicola Cadbury, Global Campaign for Education UK Co-ordinator, by telephone 020 3122 0679 or email at nicola.cadbury@actionaid.org

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