Chapter 18: Elos Development and Integration in A Network of United Kingdom (UK) Schools

In autumn 2005, the launch of the Comenius 3 network with 11 participant countries enabled a UK network of schools to be established. The International Learning and Research Centre was the Elos UK coordinator. The previous year, the official launch of the Elos program in the Autumn of 2004 during the Dutch presidency of the European Union (EU) had provided an opportunity for the International Learning and Research Centre to engage groups of UK secondary headteachers in a consideration of Elos principles and concepts. In promoting the Elos project, the Head of the International Learning and Research Centre worked in partnership with a secondary headteacher who was chair of a southwest consortium of a group of six schools and a further education college. This proved to be a significant strategy. It resulted in three of the consortium’s secondary schools and the further education college subsequently joining the Elos UK network.