The Peruvian Ministry of Education (MINEDU) wishes to train approximately 500 state secondary school teachers of English on two or more two-week ‘summer schools’ during the Peruvian summer break in January and February 2015 in Peru. These schools may run consecutively or in part concurrently, depending on the nature of bids received. UK organisations are invited to bid to provide the tutor team to deliver one or more of these summer schools, to be held in state secondary schools in Lima (and possibly other cities in Peru), either for all 500 teachers or for multiples of 100 teachers.

Logistics, such as board and lodging for participants and tutors, will be dealt with locally; the UK organisation’s task is to deliver a highly effective learning experience for the Peruvian participants, with a twin focus on language development and classroom practice development. It is anticipated that summer schools will be a regular feature of CPD in Peru over the next five years and that over that time the Peruvian Master Teacher cadre will play an increasing role in the delivery of the schools, eventually assuming responsibility. The wider context for this work is a commitment by the government of Peru to the country being ‘bilingual in English’ by 2021 and the allocation of significant resource to this ambition over the period to 2021. The UK and Peru will shortly be signing a Memorandum of Understanding on Education Co-operation to support and facilitate this work.

Summer schools will typically assemble on a Sunday, for example Sunday 18 January, and end with lunch two Fridays later, for example Friday 30 January. Participants will not be returning home during the weekend in the middle of the summer school.

Full board and lodging and airport transfer will be provided for UK teams in Peru.

Bids must be received by 13:00 on Wednesday 26 November. See the attached document for further details.