Warwick in Schools and
Warwick in Africa
Introduction Presentation
October 2015
Mrs Pam Price
Warwick in Schools(WinS) –
what is it?
• Scheme for students with three key aims:
1. To enable students to gain academic
credit through IE3E[1,2,3]
2. To encourage highly qualified
undergraduates to consider a career in
teaching
3. To raise the aspirations of learners in
school
What happens next?...
• WinS Administrator: Jane Allen
wins@warwick.ac.uk
• WinS registration form:
Link from module pages
Completing the form:
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Subject to teach for students studying:
Economics - Maths
Computer Science - Maths
Engineering - Physics
Training sessions 5.30 – 7.30pm:
Tues (Maths) – indicate availability
Wed (Maths/Physics/Chemistry)
Completing the form (contd)
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Your availability for half-day placements
Transport – car?
Contact details – mobile number
DBS checks
DBS Clearance
• Christine D’Cruz
School placement
• Placement allocation: organised according to
your availability and school placement offers
• Transport: make your own arrangements wherever
possible, you are responsible for covering the cost
of this.
• If necessary we may be able to help arrange
transport to more distant schools, in which case you
will be expected to pay at least £5 per day towards
the cost. Journeys to some schools could cost £70
for the 10 day placement.
WinS – Compulsory
Placement briefing meeting
• When?:
Wednesday 9th December 1-3pm
• Where?
L5
Why compulsory?
Placement details given out and
chance to organise transport with other
students
WinS – How is it linked to
Warwick in Africa?
• WinS students can apply for a place on
our Warwick in Africa teaching Project
• WinS students are often placed in schools
with high levels of social deprivation in
Coventry and surrounding counties for
their teaching experience.
Warwick must be able to help …..
Summer 2006
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£30,000
12 maths students
Township schools
And lot of good luck ..
Not easy to do homework
42 taps for 45,000 people
Missing generations
There’s loads of enthusiasm
And talent…
…but you can’t always win!
And the impact?
“The University of Warwick programme is
revolutionising our thinking on
Mathematics education.”
Dr Edward Mosuwe, Chief Director,
Further Education and Training,
Ministry of Education for South Africa
A replicable model: South
Africa, Tanzania & Ghana
Despite the resources
or lack of them….
There’s loads of other talent too
In 2015
• 64 students taught in Africa this summer:
42 in SA, 12 in Tanzania and 10 in Ghana
(English and Maths)
• 17 teachers delivered CPD training to
teachers in Ghana and South Africa
• 3 more teachers came to Warwick from
S. Africa and 4 from Ghana at the end of
September for the CPD Study and training
course
Remember….
• Complete online WinS registration form
• Check you have necessary documents
and attend the DBS documents session
on Wednesday 11th November
• Attend Placement Briefing meeting on
Wednesday 9th December 1pm in L5
• WiA applications now open
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/giving/priority/
responsibility/wina/getinvolved/students