Our work with schools
Inspiring future generations and providing opportunities
We actively introduce students to the many exciting and relevant benefits of studying geography, widening their perception of the subject and encouraging them to pursue it beyond the compulsory stages. We do it by presenting the wide range of career options and working with undergraduate, postgraduate and graduate geographers from universities and organisations to act as Ambassadors for geography in the classroom and beyond.
Through the Alexander Awards Summer School, we have also supported students from across the UK to participate in a fully funded geographical fieldwork summer school at the end of their first year of A Level and Higher Studies. The focus has been to support students who may not, through a range of circumstances, have had the opportunity to participate in a high quality residential fieldwork before and who would benefit most from such an experience.
Support for teachers
We support geography teachers by providing engaging teaching resources and regular CPD workshops. Our Teacher Training Scholarship programme also helped support trainee teachers.
- Key Stage Three
Journeys - Caribbean stories
This theme explores the history of the Caribbean in the 1900s through images which illustrate everyday life
- Key Stage Three
How is creativity produced in the Caribbean?
In this podcast we're joined by Dr Pat Noxolo to discuss the ways in which Caribbean people deploy creative energy to live with the everyday effects of insecurity, poverty, inequality and violence
- Key Stage Four
Gender inequality and women in geography
Geography for all
Our Geography for all project works with colleagues and organisations across the geographical community. It aims to help address equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the subject, with a focus on under-representation by income and ethnicity through the following:
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Pilot, evaluate and share direct work with young people that are under-represented in geography to better support their achievement and aspirations through the subject.
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Establish a network of geography teachers to particularly support the capacities of geography teacher trainees and early career geography teachers in addressing EDI within their practice.
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Engage with, and support, the potential involvement of universities and employers to better promote and support pathways into higher education and the workplace for geography students.
- Schools & FE
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Inquiry on Africa and its diaspora in the UK School Curricula1
Our response stresses that geography makes a distinctive and important contribution to learning about Africa and its diaspora in relation to teaching pupils about their contemporary and geographically diverse nature.
- DfE
Proposed changes to the assessment of GCSEs, AS and A levels in 2022
Our response to this consultation rejects the proposals on the basis that they would introduce inequality into the assessment of GCSE geography in 2022.