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At our 40th Anniversary event the celebrated educationalist Mick Waters helped us look back at the last 40 years of education and how DECSY had played a part in supporting teachers to help young people make sense of the changing world. This blog gives a summary of his talk and some ideas for the next steps for Global Learning.

Join us at our 40th anniversary celebration event at Sheffield Town Hall on Wednesday 23rd October, and join the discussion – what direction for education for the next 40 years?

Join us at our networking event and commit to taking a whole school approach to gender inequity. Professor Gina Rippon and Mick Waters will give keynote inputs, with Sue Finnigan and Thom Winterbotham from Learn Sheffield providing a more local perspective.

SHARE (Sheffield Anti-Racist Education) is pleased to invite you to this decolonising schools and museums event at Weston Park Museum on Saturday 6 July. Everyone welcome!

DECSY Global Education Adviser, Helen Griffin, highlights the latest lesson plan from our ‘Non-violent action: a force for change’ materials developed and used by the late Mark Hutchinson (1960-2023) who worked closely with DECSY over many years.

DECSY Global Education Adviser, Rob Unwin, attended COP 28 as an online observer. Here he gives a summary of his observations on the conference, some of the agreements made, and how this ‘Only game in town’ for addressing climate change internationally can work for real change.

The Global Learning Network is a group representing global learning and development education centres across England. DECSY is a part of this network, that has recently changed it’s name from CoDEC. This fortnight is a chance to celebrate Global Learning and the TGLN network. Not sure what or how to define Global Learning. Read on as Clive Belgeonne, one of our Global Learning Advisers, explains more…

Global Education Week highlights the importance of Global Learning and Citizenship Education and the huge benefits of intergrating global learning into the curriculum.

Read about how an amazing science teacher went about developing resources for her school to inspire all students to develop a love of STEM.

This is a list of lesson plans and teaching resources to help schools respond to grappling with what/how to talk to pupils about the escalating violence unfolding in Israel and Palestine. Resources are from Facing History and Ourselves and Quakers in Britain.