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Penny Krucker

Penny Krucker established the International Education Office for Gloucestershire LEA in 1989 having left a large comprehensive school where she was Deputy Headteacher and teacher of Business Studies and Economics. Her main responsibility is to develop an international ethos in schools, to manage the government's modern foreign languages initiative with Gloucestershire primary schools and to assist schools to access funding for project work with partner schools abroad. She is also responsible for Gloucestershire's gifted and talented programme.

She manages a European information service for LEAs in the south west and the Regional Support Group for Early Language Learning. She is the co-ordinator of Gloucestershire's Global Education Network which she represents on the south west Enabling Effective Support group funded by DfID. She is also a member of the south west Regional Professional Development Network funded by British Council/DfES.

She manages a considerable number of European funded projects including Comenius 2.1 and Minerva and has led many workshops, conferences and fact-finding visits across Europe, Japan, China and Jamaica. She is an Ofsted inspector and an accredited consultant to the Specialist Schools Trust, and gives support and advice to schools within the specialist school movement across the country. She is currently working in partnership with Global Leap, which is part of the "Videoconferencing in the Classroom Project", funded by the DfES.

She is a member of the UNESCO National Commission for Education, a Board member of the League of Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers (LECT), and chair of the International Committee of ConFED, previously known as the Society of Education Officers. In an earlier life, she lived in Australia and managed the Centre for Asian Studies in the University of Western Australia.

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