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New Global Fellowship for school leavers

By TJ (03-01-2008)
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The Prime Minister has announced a new Global Fellowship for young people. It has been created to enable 100 school and college leavers each year to visit some of the major countries of the new global economy, starting in the summer of 2008 with China, India and Brazil.

Developed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, along with the British Council, the Global Fellowship programme has been designed to provide an opportunity for young self-starters of school and college leaving age from all over the country and all backgrounds to venture out and explore the cultures and societies that will increasingly shape our lives in England.

The six week programme will include:

  • Cultural and language immersion.
  • Work in a school or college where they can contribute as a language teaching assistant.
  • Time spent with a global company, being introduced to business operations and local community impact programmes.

The programme will be delivered by the British council.

Candidates will be put forward by their Head Teacher or College Principal. In the selection process, the students will be asked to outline a project they would be interested to undertake while on their visit, for example: climate change, entrepreneurship or family life, and to design their own communication programme to enable them to share their international experiences on return with their school or college, local community and beyond.

The applications will be short listed by a panel which will include representatives of the DCSF, global companies, education and training institutions, young people’s organisations and nominees of the host countries. The final selection will be made by the Prime Minister’s office and the Secretary of State at the DCSF.

This first group of young people selected for the Global Fellowship will have the opportunity to tell the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for the DCSF what they have learnt, during a visit to Downing Street.

Upon their return in Autumn 2008, the Global Fellows will form a network of other internationally-minded young people from a range of education and volunteering schemes together with British international employers to consider the way forward for the country in a new economic era.

The Global Fellowships scheme will be funded by the DCSF at a cost of £1.4m a year.


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