We support education reform initiatives in Jordan designed to enhance access to, and improve quality of education at school and university levels.
We work on developing and facilitating partnerships between educational institutions in Jordan and the UK.
The British Council ICT in Education Project works in partnership with the Ministries of Education in Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt to support the development of a strategic educational leadership in ICT, build capacity of teachers and establish regional networking in ICT in Education at policy and operational levels.
This is a new three year regional project that aims to enable teachers to offer new approaches to learning built on the student centred approaches in the national curricula of the NENA countries and the UK, through supporting links between schools in the UK and Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, the Palestinian Territories and Morocco.
The project aims at enhancing the creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship of IT professionals and students to increase their opportunities to compete in the global market. This British government funded project, which was launched in late 2001, has been working on building networks between the Jordanian IT sector and their counterparts in the UK, enabling knowledge transfer and rewarding outstanding students.
Montage is a BC web-based scheme that helps link schools in the UK and the world. The project emphasises the value of teachers and students from different countries communicating together in a real way in order to carry out educationally valid projects. Moreover, the project incorporates ICT into learning in order to enrich the learning experience and motivate learners. There are a series of interactive curriculum projects created for teachers to use which are innovative and fun for students to participate in and learn from. The project is connecting teachers and students in the Islamic College Schools/Jordan with UK schools in Salford and Dudley through teacher and student exchange visits and virtual links using internet, email and videoconferencing.
This initiative aims to bring together representatives from two UK universities, Jordanian universities, educational institutions, government organisations (GOs) and non-government organisations (NGOs) to discuss the status of social work in Jordan and identify areas in which the universities from Jordan and the UK will cooperate.
Jordanian and UK universities signed a cooperative agreement on 31 May 2006 in London where the Jordan River Foundation in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al- Abdullah launched the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) UK chapter.
For more information about our recent projects, please contact the Projects and Programmes Managers at info@britishcouncil.org.jo
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