Media

DEA receives regular media coverage, especially in the education media. The most recent coverage, and press releases, are featured here.

For media enquiries, please contact DEA's Head of Communication on 020 7922 7938.

Recent coverage

• Sustainable schools and global learning
  IQ Education Magazine

  June 2010
  

  On p12 Hetan writes an introduction to Sustainable Schools and Global Learning.

  
  

• DEA's Kate Brown discusses school links, fundraising and global learning
  Conference & Common Room

  This term's issue of the independent school magazine Conference & Common Room includes an article by Kate Brown, Schools Programme Manager It discusses school links, fundraising and global learning.

  To read it online, see p. 16 for her article: Conference & Common Room online issue.

   

  
  

• OVER 200 CHARITIES AND SCHOOLS LAUNCH GLOBAL LEARNING CHARTER
  

• CHARTER FOR GLOBAL LEARNING
  

• 200 ORGANISATIONS BACK GLOBAL LEARNING CHARTER
  

• Nottingham Trent University signs DEA global learning charter
  

  NOTTINGHAM Trent University has become the first in the county to sign the Development Education Association's global learning charter.

  
  

• Benefits of Global Learning article
  SecEd

  February 2910
  

  SecEd, the weekly magazine for secondary schools, carried an article by  Kate Brown, DEA's Schools Programme Manager, in the 4th February issue.

  The article looks at the benefits of global learning for pupils, teachers and schools and suggests a number of ways to get started.

  
  

• DEA's Chief Executive Hetan Shah considers Global Learning and Community Cohesion
  Who Do We Think We Are?

  In this article Hetan considers how Who Do We Think We Are? Week helps schools fulfil their duty to promote community cohesion.

  
  

• DEA: More support for teachers dealing with racism
  BBC

  November 2009
  

• Media coverage of DEA's cohesion fringe at Labour
  Children and Young People Now

  The Minister for Community Cohesion, Shahid Malik MP, agreed that the parental choice agenda can increase division during a DEA fringe event at Labour Party Conference, a children's and youth work magazine has reported.

  
  

• DEA letter in The Times
  The Times

  DEA has had a letter published in The Times arguing for the importance of global learning.

  
  

• Profile of DEA's Youth Programme Manager, Sarah Williams
  Youth Work Now

  1 September 2009
  

  Sarah Williams discusses working in the youth sector and her enjoyment of showing people how exciting it can be when young people take action to change the world.

  
  

• Leadership for Global Learning
  Teaching Times

  19 August 2009
  

  In this article for School Leadership Today, part of Teaching Times, the DEA's Helen Young looks at the implications for vision, context and culture in our schools if global learning is to become a reality.

  
  

• Schools Failing Pupils for Global Future: One Third of Teachers
  DEA Press Release

  20 March 2009
  

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• Hetan Shah on global citizenship education
  Association for Citizenship Teaching magazine.

  March 2009
  

• DEA and Ipsos MORI research into global learning
  NUT's Education Review

  March 2009
  

• Katine schools competition: and the winner is...
  The Guardian

  14 February 2009
  

• Peace teachings on Gaza
  Times Educational Supplement

  30 January 2009
  

• Going Global
  Breaktime Magazine

  January 2009
  

• Never too young to learn that racism is wrong, experts insist
  Times Educational Supplement

  21 November 2008
  

• Educating a new generation for change
  Social Enterprise Magazine

  November 2008
  

• Katine school journalism competition
  The Guardian

  18 October 2008
  

• Playing soldiers just got serious
  Times Educational Supplement

  17 October 2008
  

• Project to boost global awareness
  Youth Work Now

  October 2008
  

• Global learning
  Teaching Today Magazine

  October 2008
  

• Going global
  Progress Magazine

  17 September 2008
  

• Do not blame schools for pupils' intolerance'
  Sec Ed

  4 September 2008
  

• Slavery Lessons from September
  Teaching Times

  4 September 2008
  

• Slavery history lessons to be compulsory
  Guardian

  4 September 2008
  

• All pupils to learn about slavery
  BBC website

  4 September 2008
  

• Schools May Fail On Community Cohesion Duty
  DEA Press Release

  31 August 2008
  

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• Children snub pluralism
  The Observer

  31 August 2008
  

• Slave trade guidance
  Times Education Supplement

  29 August 2008
  

• Charity Calls For Better Slavery Teaching Support
  DEA Press Release

  26 August 2008
  

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• The Times Public Agenda
  

  8 July 2008
  

  Page 2 trail ‘teenagers are "globally illiterate"'
  Page 3 ‘Little Englanders will fail'
  Click here to read the article

   
  

• Children's world ‘too small'
  Huddersfield Daily Examiner

  5 July 2008
  

• Call for better 'global literacy'
  BBC website

  4 July 2008
  

• Interview with Rob Unwin, Development Education Centre South Yorkshire about DEA/ Ipsos MORI research
  Hallam FM

  4 July 2008
  

• Interview with Lesley MacKay, Brudenell Primary School, Leeds about DEA/ Ipsos MORI research
  Real Radio Leeds

  4 July 2008
  

• BBC Coventry and Warwick Radio

  4 July 2008
  

• Hull Daily Mail

  4 July 2008
  

• UK education ‘not preparing children for wider world'
  Birmingham Post

  4 July 2008
  

• Yorkshire Post

  4 July 2008
  

  ‘Racist shame of pupils revealed after 7/7 attack'
  http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Racist-shame-of-pupils-revealed.4256755.jp
  ‘Schools working on global issues'
  http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Schools-working-on-global-issues.4256748.jp

  
  

• Interview with Hetan Shah, DEA Chief Executive, and Anne Swift, Headteacher, Gladstone Road Infant School, Scarborough about DEA/ Ipsos MORI research
  Sunrise Radio

  4 July 2008
  

• Independent Radio News

  4 July 2008
  

• Times Education Supplement

  4 July 2008
  

  Page 2 trail - ‘It's a small world'
  Page 10 - ‘Pupils ‘should discuss world events more'' http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2644167

  
  

• Call for better 'global literacy'
  BBC Radio Five Live

  4 July 2008
  

• Pupils are 'globally illiterate', warns charity
  The Guardian

  4 July 2008
  

• What in the world are they learning?
  The Metro

  4 July 2008
  

  http://www.metro.co.uk/news/climatewatch/article.html?in_article_id=203211&in_page_id=59&in_a_source=
  The Metro website - ‘Our children are ‘globally illiterate''
  http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=203372&in_page_id=34

  
  

• The Telegraph

  4 July 2008
  

  Page 6 - ‘Blind to the world'
  Web - ‘Schools leaving children 'globally illiterate''
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2240808/Schools-leaving-children-'globally-illiterate'.html

  
  

• New Research Shows English Education Leaves 1 in 5 Globally Illiterate
  DEA Press Release

  26 June 2008
  

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• PM back call for emphasis on global learning
  Sec Ed magazine

  19 June 2008
  

• DEA/ DFID ‘Think Global' supplement
  The Guardian

  29 April 2008