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1013123

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date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Educational Exchanges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2018 to Question 191463 on Developing Countries: Educational Exchanges, how many of the 60,000 teachers and school leaders will be from (a) the UK and (b) developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	195105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Of the 60,000 teachers and school leaders to be trained under the Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme (2018-2021), 50% will be UK teachers and 50% will be teachers from developing countries.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/11/2018 15:00:38 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1013124

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Educational Exchanges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2018 to Question 191463 on Developing Countries: Educational Exchanges, how many of the 56,000 teachers trained in the connecting classrooms programme between 2015 and 2018 were based in (a) the UK and (b) overseas.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	195106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Of the 56,000 teachers trained under the Connecting Classrooms programme (2015-2018), 3,500 were UK teachers and the remainder were teachers from developing countries.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 28/11/2018 15:02:07 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1007037

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Educational Exchanges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme, what steps her Department is taking to train 60,000 teachers and schools leaders in the UK and developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	191463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme (2018-2021) aims to reach 3 million pupils in over 4,000 schools partnerships by 2021. It will train 60,000 teachers and school leaders in both the UK and developing countries on the following:</p><ol><li><p>setting up and running equitable partnerships, which will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);</p></li><li><p>teaching and mainstreaming development education and global citizenship content, such as the SDGs;</p></li><li><p>teaching transferable skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving; and</p></li><li><p>ensuring that education is inclusive and of high quality.</p><p> </p></li></ol><p>This training will be provided in line with best practice, using the model of two days of input, followed by approximately six weeks of putting the learning into practice, and then a follow-up to share the learning. This model worked well in the previous Connecting Classrooms programme (2015-2018), through which over 56,000 teachers were trained in the UK and overseas. Delivery of teacher training will begin in January 2019.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/11/2018 14:53:14 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1003781

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many projects funded by her Department have had a reduction in their activities as a result of changes in the value of the pound since June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	189779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>DFID’s policy is to sign agreements and make payments in sterling to mitigate foreign exchange risk. Activities within programmes will have increased and decreased since 2016 for a variety of reasons. It is not possible to identify which might be the result of foreign exchange movements.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/11/2018 18:01:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill