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Course Tutor Gina Revill on the web link to New Zealand with Frances and Kitty

Launch of Learning through International Partnership Programme.

Developing partnerships with schools across the world is the growing as a major theme of the Midwheb Partnership with two projects with partners.

Saturday was the launch of the "LIPS" programme in conjunction with Kathy Wicksteed and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and Gina Revill of Core Education in New Zealand.

Featured here are researchers Frances Carr and Kitty Walsh.

Teacher-Researchers on the programme are drawn from specialist schools across the UK who are developing internal links. The programme is a year long project aimed at developing effective links, planning implementation and evaluation of the link, and revealing the impact that such links make on student learning.

The day featured a video link with Gina Revill in New Zealand a leading expert on online learning communities introducing the new online learning environment. Researchers across the country will be developing electronic portfolios of their work. Kathy Wicksteed developed a seminar theme looking at the purpose of international links and who they are designed to benefit.

Next week see the launch of the London Borough of Enfield and North London International Schools Consortium, second cohort activity "Developing Professional Practice through International Study"