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Celebrating innovative partnerships for education

Friday 13 March 2009

Headteachers

The University of East London is leading the way in pioneering new education partnerships with schools and colleges. On Thursday 12 March, students of UEL's Cass School of Education celebrated winning the London Education Partnership Award at London's City Hall.

Also this week, head teachers and college principals gathered at Docklands campus to explore how new ways of working in partnership with UEL are delivering improved services for learners.

The students from UEL's innovative Foundation Degree for Teaching Assistants, were recognised for building lasting education partnerships with UEL, schools in Barking and Dagenham and the Barking Learning Centre.

“I am delighted that UEL has won this award and many congratulations to all the students,” said acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Susan Price. “We believe that we can achieve a lot more in partnership and we are committed to our work in Barking and Dagenham.”

The event was organised by the Greater London Authority and Jeff Jacobs, Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Communities and Intelligence and Wes Streeting, National President of the National Union of Students and the Mayor of Barking and Dagenham, Councillor Emmanuel Obasohan were among speakers and guests.

Mayor Obasohan said: “Joint partnership working is great because one organisation or authority alone can’t do it alone. We need to diversify and understand each other.”

Another successful networking opportunity in forging further partnerships with schools and building on existing ones was the Headteachers dinner on Wednesday 11 March.

Forty head teachers from schools around London including the boroughs of Westminster, Islington, Ealing, Newham, Enfield, Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Thurrock, Essex, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Greenwich and Tower Hamlets enjoyed the chance to network and find further opportunities of working together.

Sir Alan Steer, Government adviser on education and former headteacher of Seven Kings School in Redbridge said:

"It is wonderful to see how UEL is leading the way on partnerships with our schools - working together we can raise standards and deliver excellent services for our children."

UEL is hosting the Listening to Learners conference on Wednesday 22 April.

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The University of East London (UEL) is a global learning community with over 28,000 students from over 120 countries world-wide. Our vision is to achieve recognition, both nationally and internationally, as a successful and inclusive regional university proud of its diversity, committed to new modes of learning which focus on students and enhance their employability, and renowned for our contribution to social, cultural and economic development, especially through our research and scholarship. We have a strong track-record in widening participation and working with industry.

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