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The Influence Of North South School Partnerships

The Influence Of North South School Partnerships: Examining The Evidence From Schools In The UK, Africa And Asia

Overview
In this research, we explore the perceived influence of International School Partnerships on leaders, teachers and students in the UK, Africa and Asia. During the first year of our two-year DFID-UK funded study, we surveyed over 1400 school-level partnership leaders in 15 countries. The goal of the survey was to develop an understanding of the current landscape, practice and influence of school partnerships. In the second year, we conducted 55 school-level case studies in the United Kingdom, Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Tanzania) and Asia (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). Our report highlights the potential for International School Partnerships to influence student and teacher development of new knowledge, skills and understanding. The final chapter highlights our findings from 'high momentum' partnerships that have successfully created whole-school gains based on their international collaboration.

Research Team
Dr Karen Edge  was the Principal Investigator for this study. The core research leadership team included Keren Frayman (year 1) and James Lawrie (year 2) and Dr. Sonia Ben Jaafar (Lead Quantitative Specialist).  The international team was comprised of over 25 research colleagues across Africa, Asia and Europe. We were fortunate to work with researchers from within the IOE and the following universities: Bath Spa University, UK; Mata Sundri College for Women, India; Aga Khan University, Pakistan; Maseno University, Kenya; Makerere University, Uganda; and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa


Management Group
The project was co-managed by Angela Cook (Cambridge Education) and Nick Maurice (UKOWLA/BUILD), and actively engaged an Advisory Group of representatives from the following organisations:
British Council
Building Understanding through International Links for Development (BUILD)
Cambridge Education Foundation
Development Education Association (DEA)
Department for International Development (DFID)
Link Community Development (LCD)
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
UK One World Linking Association (UKOWLA) 
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)