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What's happening in 2008: 12th May - Morpeth Herald - UK MP backs Pont High School campaign Send My Friend to School is the UK part of a worldwide movement known as the Global Campaign for Education, and is backed by a variety of relevant charities ... 10th May - Hexham Courant - UK School pledge call for action The Send My Friend to School campaign is the UK part of a worldwide movement known as the Global Campaign for Education, and is backed by a variety of ... 5th May - Reuters - UK World record broken for biggest lesson During the lesson they were asked what they planned to do to ensure quality education for all. The country with the highest attendance was Bangladesh; ... 1st May - Guardian - UK Teach the world Like Gordon Brown, I support the Global Campaign for Education. It's the key to unlocking the talent of future generations. 1st May - Independent - UK Education Diary: Fallout from the teachers' strike Among those taking part was Shakira, the honorary chair of Global Action Week, who brought an air of glamour to the proceedings by taking part in a ... 1st May - OneWorld - UK Children knock at doors of lawmakers in India... Save the Childhood Foundation, etc. supported and participated in The Global Action week, which was observed in 12 states and Union Territories of India. 1st May - Redditch Standard - UK Being a part of the biggest lesson in the world Their international co-ordinator, Owain James, said he hoped the record-breaking day would help put the issue firmly on the agenda. ... 1st May - UK Pupils learn why it's so important to... learn The 30-minute lesson was for the Global Campaign for Education, which promotes education as a basic human right- 72 million of the world's children miss out ... 1st May - DFID - UK Global Action Week on Education 30th April - Oxfam Global Campaign for Education breaks world record for World's Biggest Ever Lesson We did it - together! 30th April - The Guardian - UK Are governments on course to achieve their 2015 goal? 29th April - Hendon & Finchley Times - UK Finchley pupils teach world leaders a lesson By Rebecca Lowe More than 200 pupils from a Finchley school took part in a Guinness World Record breaking attempt to hold the world's biggest lesson last ... 29th April - BBC - UK BBC NEWS | School Report | World's biggest lesson attempt School Reporters from Rainham School for Girls in Gillingham, Kent took part in - and reported on - an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of records.  On 4th March school children asked Gordon Brown for his personal promise to help get every child worldwide into school. They handed the Prime Minister a giant ‘missing out’ card symbolizing the 72 million children who are still missing out on an education, on which he wrote the following message: Thanks to the efforts of millions of campaigners and governments in rich and poor countries alike we have made astonishing progress in getting millions of children into school in some of the poorest countries in the world. This is a huge achievement. Now we need to redouble our efforts to get the remaining 72 million into school by 2015 and to improve their quality of learning. That is why the UK has committed £8.5 billion for education and why I am pledging £150 million of extra support to India’s national programme for elementary education. GCE-UK, popularly known as ‘Send My Friend’, has re-launched their website for the 2008 campaign, visit the site, find out what’s happening and download the latest resources on www.sendmyfriend.org Download the UK’s Lesson Plan, and Class Handout (Jeanne can you do as images in the text?) ‘Final Countdown’ is the new GCE-UK report that provides the UK government with recommendations for meeting the Education for All goals by 2015. Download the report here:
Media Coverage: 25th April - Scotsman - UK 22nd April – AHN - UK 22nd April - The Herald - UK 21st April - Time Education Supplement - UK 21st April – ITN – UK 14th April - Guardian - UK 21st March - TES - UK 6th March - BBC World Class - UK PM to talk education with Shakira On Wednesday, hundreds of schools around the UK are set to take part in the World's Biggest Lesson, which will see pupils from 120 countries taught the same ... 18th April - ATL Education News - UK Do more to stop exclusion, UNESCO urges governments Quality education to end exclusion is the theme of this year's Global Action Week, organised by UNESCO between April 21st and 27th. ... 17th April - Independent - UK http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/eastern-promise- will-ministers-honour-their-pledge-to-indian-schoolchildren-810037.html Kerry McCarthy MP visits India with GCE & World Vision 14th April - Guardian - UK An enormous force ... set itself the task of working with NGOs and other campaigners to create a Global Campaign for Education aiming to make the worlds' leaders deliver on .. Campaign Materials Click to download: What happened in 2007? Action Week took place in the middle of a busy year campaigning for Education Rights. One highlight event was a parliamentary seminar of MPs, and education campaigners on 'Making them keep their promises', that was hosted by MP Celia Barlow in the House of Commons. Children from Ghana and Kenya gave emotive speeches for why their friends should be helped to get an education at home. Later in the week, students from more than 25 schools gathered in the centre of Birmingham to JOIN UP. The popular children's celebrity Dani Harmer made a special guest appearance and after music performances, everyone joined a long chain round Victoria Square.
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