Our global future

How can education meet the challenge of change?

Think Global works to influence policy and create an enabling policy environment for global learning in a number of ways. We have positive ongoing relationships with policy makers and work with them on current issues. We respond to formal consultations and work to engage a range of stakeholders in debates around these.

We also have a longer term, proactive programme to promote a national conversation around how policy could enable schools to better prepare children and young people for their global future. The process aims to uncover practical and imaginative proposals that will help embed global learning in the English education system. This began with the launch in Parliament of Questioning Education in July 2008. After 10 seminars around the country and numerous discussions, we launched outcomes of this discussion as Policy Recommendations in March 2009.

The launch of these documents was accompanied by the publication of research by Ipsos MORI on behalf of DEA into young people's and teachers' attitudes to, and experiences of, global learning.