Services

Benefits of OIEB membership

Subscribed schools can expect OIEB to 

• Provide accurate guidance and support on all aspects of the international dimension.
• Offer awareness-raising events to parents and Governors.
• Promote the DfES’s international strategy as published in November 2004.
• Promote the DfES Guidance booklet Developing the Global Dimension of the School Curriculum circulated to schools in March 2005.
• Promote the 8 concepts of global citizenship and promote events that reinforce it – e.g. Fair Trade Fortnight, Human Rights day etc.
• Provide classroom activities that integrate the international dimension into the curriculum of schools.
• Promote and advise on the International School Award (ISA) as a framework for national accreditation and recognition of the international work carried out in schools.
• Offer a partner-finding service.
• Promote within our schools, the different Actions of the EU’s new Life-Long Learning (LLL) programme but especially the Comenius projects.
• Offer our teachers and officers in-service training opportunities in the area of the international dimension.
• Expand the opportunities available to teachers in the area of international professional development opportunities abroad including from the EU’s LLL Actions of Comenius and Arion and through the DfES’s Teachers’ International Development Programme.
• Organise the annual Model United Nations General Assembly events for 6th Formers.
• Nurture our existing area links; to work collaboratively with education departments abroad to develop joint projects.
• Liaise with other Advisers and Officers of the LA to deliver aspects of Curriculum 2000 and the ECM agenda.
• Raise awareness of the international dimension opportunities available to schools.
• Develop and maintain the OIEB’s website.
• Communicate with schools via e-mail, regular newsletter (OIEB Flyers) and www.oieb.org
• Assist the work of the DfID, DEA, British Council and LECT at local level.
• Promote the work and resources of charities such as Oxfam, Action Aid, Unicef, WaterAid etc., especially in the area of global citizenship.
• Act, on behalf of the Director, as a host authority from visiting delegations from abroad. To organise educational events to support these visits.
• Share and celebrate work of our schools in the area of the international dimension.
• Be available for term-time telephone support.

Performance standards and monitoring quality 

The OIEB is monitored through questionnaires sent to schools and by written feedback from conferences. Evidence of the success of the OIEB is the number of schools involved in the many programmes on offer.

Additional services to schools 

• INSET
• Bespoke Twilight Sessions
• Partner finding requests (1 partner e.g. Pakistan or USA)
• Partner finding requests (multiple partners e.g. Comenius)
• Study visits administration fee
• Travel booking service
• MUNGA (6th Forms only)
• European Projects Preparatory Day
• Inset sessions (as per OQSA rates)
• Special projects e.g. the latest partnerships programme with Ugandan schools and theplanned programmes with Indonesia and China
• Additional consultancy
• Telephone & e-mail guidance and support