[eal-bilingual] Inclusive Secondary Schools Project

You may have already participated in the Inclusive Secondary Schools Project
through our surveys of refugee community organisations, schools and local
authorities and/or taken part in interviews. The information from all of
these is being analysed in depth, and we already have identified key factors
which will inform the next stage of the project.

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We are now looking to recruit four partnerships, one in each of the four
project regions - Eastern, London, West Midlands and Yorkshire and
Humberside. Each partnership will consist of a school (or network of
schools) and a refugee community/supporting organisation (or forums/networks
of these groups) and will run for one year (April 2007 - March 2008). These
partnerships will collaboratively develop ways of working with refugee and
asylum seeking parents and carers, focussing on strategies to increase their
participation in their children's education. Partnerships will receive seed
funding and support from the project team.

This is a developmental project and therefore we welcome applications from
organisations or partnership who have little or no experience of working on
these issues. However, only joint applications from schools and community
organisations, will be accepted. If you are interested but would like help
with identifying potential partners, please contact Calvin Armstrong on 0207
346 1162 calvin.armstrong at refugeecouncil.org.uk
<mailto:calvin.armstrong at refugeecouncil.org.uk>  

You will need to access three key documents - Guidance Notes on the
partnerships, Joint Application Form and a Summary of key issues raised in
the research so far - in order to apply to become one of the partnerships.
These are available from us directly, or from next week on the Refugee
Council website.  If you have any questions about this process, please
contact Calvin or Lisa. (Please note that I am on annual leave from the
afternoon of Friday the 2nd March until Thursday the 8th March).

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday the 23rd March 2007.  

Kind regards

Lisa Doyle (on behalf of the Project Team)

Dr Lisa Doyle
Nora McKenna

Inclusive Schools Research Project Co-ordinator
Education Policy Adviser

The Refugee Council
Tel:  020 7346 1168

240 - 250 Ferndale Road
nora.mckenna at refugeecouncil.org.uk

London 

SW9 8BB

Tel: 020 7346 1028

Fax: 020 7737 3306

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/research 