Teachers from across the UK attend Parliament's “Teachers' Institute”
4 July 2016
More than seventy teachers from schools across all regions of the United Kingdom came to Parliament this week to attend the tenth annual Teachers' Institute.
In the ten years since it was launched, “Teachers' Institute” has trained more than 500 teachers giving them skills and knowledge of Parliament to pass on to their students and fellow teachers.
Fully funded by Parliament's Education Service, the teachers will get to meet the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education, participate in a question and answer session with the Speaker, and hear from parliamentarians of all parties about their first experience of the Commons and Lords.
John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, said:
"I am proud that this excellent initiative, now in its tenth year, continues to provide such an invaluable service. Better engagement and dialogue with young people is of fundamental importance to our democracy, and I am sure that the teachers attending will find the experience both useful and enlightening."
Sarah Graham, previous attendee of Teachers' Institute, said:
"I was fortunate enough to attend the Parliamentary Teachers' Institute in summer 2014 and it was a life-changing experience, both for myself and (hopefully) for the children I teach. For the first time I felt a sense of confidence about politics and a connection to our political processes, and I have done all I can in school to share this with our children. I am delighted to say that we now have the school's first cohort of A Level Government and Politics students beginning in September 2016, as well as an annual school-wide Politics Day, set up directly as the result of my experiences at the Institute."
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