Birmingham Grid for Learning Birmingham City Council
Welcome to the Birmingham Grid for Learning The Birmingham Grid for Learning
BGfL Homepage Birmingham City Council Welcome to the Birmingham Grid for Learning
Web Links Feedback Contributions Site Map About BGfL
  BGfL Home - Children's Services - Transforming Education - International Development
School Links
International school links

The benefits to children involved in international school links are extremely varied and effective across all areas of learning.  International school links have been shown to:

  • Help children to develop the skills to communicate, co-operate, and act with confidence and with an understanding of other cultures.

  • Prepare young people to understand the increasingly inter-dependent world that they will inherit.

  • Generate a lot of enthusiasm amongst the children and increase their social and cultural understanding.

Birmingham's Partner Cities

The International Development Unit helps to establish partnerships with the six partner cities of Birmingham:

and with other cities

In addition, there are formal links with Barcelona and our countries of origin.

For other destinations - visit:

Powered by Netmedia Education
© 1999 - 2004 Birmingham City Council
Return to Top