April 2022 – More Schools to Benefit from Holocaust Education After Funding Boost
The organisation set up by UWS to promote excellence in teaching the Holocaust in schools has been awarded £50,000 to continue this vital work and promote the National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London, which will be completed in 2025.
The funding from the UK Memorial Directorate’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will enable Vision Schools Scotland, founded by UWS in partnership with Holocaust Educational Trust, to support and reward more schools who demonstrate innovation and good practice in Holocaust education for another year, as well as focusing on promoting the aims of the aims of the new Learning Centre and highlighting the British experiences of the Holocaust.
Vision Schools Scotland launched in 2017 with three schools, but the programme has now grown to include 23 Vision Schools and a network of more than 40 schools that are involved in varying stages of the programme.
The organisation promotes a focus on the history of, and learning from, the Holocaust. The former is essential in addressing Holocaust distortion, while the latter allows issues such as contemporary antisemitism, anti-gypsyism and xenophobia to be studied in this context – issues essential in achieving global citizenship.
The new grant means that Vision Schools Scotland is funded by the Scottish and UK Governments.
March 2021 – Launch of Marianne Grant Resource
Vision School and UWS launches pioneering new Holocaust educational resource.
A pioneering new educational resource has been created by Vision Schools Scotland, at the University of the West of Scotland to support teaching secondary school pupils about the Holocaust. Read all about it here:
UWS launches pioneering new holocaust educational resource
The Jewish Chronicle – Survivor’s story that will stir teachers in Scotland; read it here:
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-jewish-chronicle/20210326/282162178993524
January 2021 – Holocaust Memorial Day – we must never forget Aushchwitz – Professor Henry Maitles blog post explaining why we must never forget the horrors of the Holocaust. Read it here:
BLOG: Holocaust Memorial Day – we must never forget Auschwitz – UWS eBulletin
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Dr Paula Cowan looks at how Schools can teach the subject to a new generation:
https://www.tes.com/news/why-meaningful-holocaust-education-school-crucial
