UK: Teachers take publicly-funded, fossil-fueled trips to Bangladesh

Darwen teachers enjoy fact-finding trip to Bangladesh (From Lancashire Telegraph)

TEACHERS from Darwen visited Bangladesh on a 10-day fact-finding mission.

Barbara Cocken, headteacher at St Stephen’s C of E Primary School, Tockholes, Claire Redman, assistant headteacher at Darwen Vale High School, and Emma Johnson and Sarah Stowe from Avondale Primary School travelled with Liz Alderson, a consultant from Blackburn with Darwen City Learning Centre.

The trip was organised and funded by the British Council as part of the three-year Connecting Classrooms project which aims to encourage inter-cultural dialogue.

Each partnership is entitled to £12,000 per year, for up to three years, to fund study visits, to purchase materials, and meet other costs.

The teachers have been forming links with a range of schools in Bangladesh to work on shared learning topics like climate change and challenging their perceptions of each other’s societies and cultures.