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Traveller equality update: news from schools and LAs

Examples of successful equality projects and information from the Achieve Traveller Education event held in March 2007. (Spring 2008)


Race equality and your school

Evidence suggests that both pupils and teachers continue to have different educational experiences based on their ethnic group. The resource provides ideas for teachers seeking to challenge this inequality. (Spring 2008)


Educational Evidence Portal

An innovative online resource dedicated to and for educational professionals and lay people. (Autumn 2007)


DCSF’s Schools Research News

A newsletter produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). (Autumn 2007)


Getting to grips with assessment

A free guide to assesment from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). (Autumn 2007)


Traveller resource file

This resource file details useful and relevant websites and provides an annotated bibliography of relevant publications, research and reports.


Resource file for Supporting Asylum Seeker and Refugee Learners

This resource file, developed by refugee education consultant Bill Bolloten, details useful and relevant websites and provides an annotated bibliography of relevant publications, research, reports and classroom resources. (Summer 2007)


Teachers’ work with asylum-seeking and refugee children

Read a report on the GTC’s expert round table session on asylum-seeking and refugee (ASR) children, organised through the Achieve network. The session looked at the main barriers to education for ASR children and young people and also explored how teachers are involved in immigration control. (Summer 2007)


Schools Research News

Use research to support your practice with the help of the Schools Research News (SRN) newsletter. (Summer 2007)


Teachers’ views on equality issues

Every year since 2004, the GTC has commissioned a survey of the views and experiences of the teaching profession. This year’s survey asked for more detailed information about teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds. (Spring 2007)


Asylum seeker resource file

This resource file details useful and relevant websites and provides an annotated bibliography of relevant publications, research and reports. (Spring 2007)


Employing refugees in teaching

The Employability Forum is an independent organisation that promotes the employment of refugees and the integration of migrant workers in the UK. (Spring 2007)


Issues and challenges around the Race Relations Act

A new study looks at issues faced by teachers who seek to promote equality and respect for diversity in schools. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) were commissioned by the GTC to undertake this study. (Spring 2007)


Holocaust Educational Trust

Resources include 'Lessons from Auschwitz' and 'Eyewitnesses Remember the Holocaust' (Spring 2007)


Teacher training resources from Multiverse

Multiverse has a collection of online resources that addresses issues of racism, underachievement and teacher expectations. (Spring 2007)


Bradford community cohesion project

The project aimed to promote respect for difference through religious education. (Spring 2007)


The Gender Equality Duty

The Gender Equality Duty is the biggest change in sex equality legislation for 30 years. (Spring 2007)


Books to help children in the early years develop a global perspective

A series of books published by Oxfam Education (Spring 2007)


The DCSF Single Equality Scheme 2008

The DCSF's Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) has published a workbook to help colleagues conduct initial and full equality impact assessments with the minimum of technical difficulty and with the policy rigour that is required. (Spring 2008)


QCA's Respect for All resources

The QCA 'Respect for all' web pages provide guidance and ideas on how schools can value diversity and challenge racism through the curriculum. (Spring 2007)


Support from the Refugee Council

Offers practical support and advice for meeting the specific needs of refugee or asylum seeking children and ensuring their integration. (Spring 2007)


GARP: anti-racism and primary teaching

A group of primary teachers in Nottingham has produced a resource pack to help teachers integrate anti-racism into primary teaching. (Spring 2007)


Supporting asylum-seeker and refugee pupils

An update on the second Achieve event on supporting asylum-seeker and refugee pupils. (Spring 2006)


Eight Ways to Change The World: a Panos exhibition on the UN Millennium Development Goals

Information about an exhibition by Panos Pictures at the Oxo Tower in September 2005. (Spring 2006)


DfES – 'Countering Racist Bullying’

Information about the consultative work being undertaken by the DfES to develop advice for school in countering racist bullying. (Spring 2006)


Headlines from racial equality in education research

A comprehensive summary of the latest statistics and research findings relating to racial equality and education. (Autumn 2005)


Resources for Black History Month

Background information and resources for teachers in relation to Black History Month. (Autumn 2005)


Research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Research on young people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. (Autumn 2005)


Research references on gender and ethnicity from the Equal Opportunities Commission

The EOC has a number of valuable resources relating to the areas of gender and ethnicity equality. (Autumn 2005)


Research from the NCSL on effective leadership of multi-ethnic schools

Research into the effective leadership of schools with a substantial proportion of students from minority ethnic communities. (Autumn 2005)


Black and Minority Ethnic Teacher Forum

Programme of work for the Black and minority ethnic teacher forum. (Autumn 2005)


Tell It Like It Is: The Truth About Asylum

A pocket guide from The Refugee Council (Summer 2005)


Research from the Department of Education and Skills (DfES)

Three reports from the DfES highlight the fact that, despite commitment to race equality in education and the hard work and progress already made, some pupil groups are still vulnerable to certain patterns and trends. (Summer 2005)


The Fawcett Society Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Women in the UK

The Fawcett Society campaigns for equality between women and men. This publication is the first they have produced focusing exclusively on the position of BME women in the UK. (Summer 2005)


Minority Ethnic Role-models for Learning and Inspiration (MERLIN)

Keep on Moving, a free CD-Rom and teachers’ resource pack (Summer 2005)


Supporting Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Pupils Network Group

The GTC’s Achieve network held its largest event so far looking at issues related to supporting asylum-seeker and refugee pupils. Sixty delegates attended the event which addressed research, policy and practice. (Summer 2005)


DfES’ Excellence in Cities (EiC) and Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG) project

Cases of effective practice arising from this project. (Spring 2005)


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