Global Education

In 1990 MBG's educational arm, the Wiltshire Global Education Centre (WGEC), was set up. Its aims are to:

• Provide a focal point for education about global issues resulting from MBG's link with Gunjur and provide support for global citizenship in schools 
• Build mutually supportive relationships with local schools, Local Education Authorities and other Development Education Centres.

Wiltshire Global Education Centre believes education for global citizenship to be at the heart of teaching and learning to enable young people to deal with the challenges and opportunities of our fast changing world. We encourage an approach that helps young people see the 'global'as part of our everyday lives and see global education as being not just about other people and other places but about the interconnected nature of our lives.

Our activities include:

• INSET for teachers on global education.
• organising/facilitating pupil workshops, conferences and other activities in schools.
• providing advice and support for the development of North-South school links.
• organising annual teachers' study visits to Gunjur in The Gambia.
• coordinating Wiltshire Global Forum.
• managing a resource centre for teachers with a wide variety of publications for sale and for hire.
• publication of a regular newsletter that goes to all Wiltshire and Swindon schools.
• producing education resources for our website

New Projects

Our new website

Our new website contains numerous topics and resources which we have either produced ourselves of have been made available to us by other organisations. They have all been used in the last four years. Some are free downloads which we have included so that members do not have to trawl numerous websites to find materials which are suitable for use in their schools. Some are outlines for INSET which have the key concepts and activities which would be useful for planning what should be included in a topic. Whilst many of the presentations have been factually updated we advise you to check data and update before you use them. Members of WGEC will receive a membership username and password to access these free resources.

Whole School Global Awards:

WGEC  supports schools in the SW to achieve a whole school award with a strong global learning component. So if your school is interested in working towards an award such as the Global School Award, the Fairtrade School Award or Rights Respecting School Award, contact  Caroline for further information.