MEP Students Visit China – October 2023
In October 132 students from five schools across England embarked on a school trip to China as part of the Mandarin Excellence Programme. The pilot trip was arranged to assist […]
In October 132 students from five schools across England embarked on a school trip to China as part of the Mandarin Excellence Programme. The pilot trip was arranged to assist […]
On Saturday 14th October 2023 the 20th IOE CI Annual Chinese Teaching Conference took place at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. We would like to thank all […]
We are pleased to announce that a number of MEP students have secured a life-changing scholarship to study A-levels at Wycombe Abbey School in Changzhou, China. This amazing opportunity which […]
Only a few days now left until our 20th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference “Developing Through Sharing” coming up this Saturday 14th October 2023. Check out our plenaries, performances and workshops in this year’s programme. As […]
After five successful years of delivery from 2016 to 2021 it was announced that the Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) would continue to be delivered by IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education […]
Our 20th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference “Developing Through Sharing” is fast approaching on Saturday 14th October 2023. You can check out this year’s programme containing plenaries, speeches, performances and a wide range of workshops delivered by […]
Our 20th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference “Developing Through Sharing” is coming up on Saturday 14th October 2023. In this year’s programme you’ll find plenaries, speeches, performances as well as 15 workshops covering a […]
Our 20th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference “Developing Through Sharing” is taking place on Saturday 14th October 2023. This year, Elliot Hsiao-Williams will be presenting the workshop “Speak Away and Create an […]
Ahead of this year’s 20th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference taking place on Saturday 14th October 2023, we are pleased to be interviewing Lucy Wicks. Lucy will be presenting the workshop “Motivation to […]
We are delighted to announce that Early Career Professional Development – Mandarin Teacher Micro-programme 2023-2024 is now open to applications. In line with the Early Career Framework, this subject-specific CPD […]
Ahead of this year’s 20th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference taking place on Saturday October 14th, 2023 we are sitting down with Katharine Carruthers, the IOE Confucius Institute Director & Global […]
MEP students from across the country were invited to enter a Mandarin song writing competition at the beginning of 2023, which formed part of the MEP event ‘Journey to the […]
In this blogpost, MEP Project Manager Yasmin Lambert talks about the Year 10 Intensive Study event which took place in June 2022. To read more about the project and see […]
We are pleased to announce that the Newman Prize for English Jueju, a poetry competition sponsored by the Institute for US-China Issues, University of Oklahoma (OU), is open for submissions […]
This week we are speaking to Katharine Carruthers, the IOE Confucius Institute Director & UCL Pro-Vice-Provost for East Asia, about the upcoming 19th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on this Saturday […]
This week we are pleased to publish our interview with Victor Wu. Victor Wu is part of our team at the CI, supporting teachers in his role of Teacher Training […]
This week we are pleased to publish our interview with Zhu Hua, Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication, UCL IOE, who will be speaking at the plenary session on […]
‘Planning for Progression’ This year we are pleased to announce the return of face-to-face workshops at the UCL IOE CI teacher training centre in Woburn Square, London. We have designed […]
We are delighted to announce the return of face-to-face workshops at the UCL IOE CI in Woburn Square. We have designed a series of six workshops across the year, all […]
Following the announcement on September 20th by the Aslef union that drivers at 12 train companies will walk out on 1st October, we regret to inform our teaching community that we have […]
Yi Zhang, Teacher of Mandarin at Willink School, will be running a workshop at our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on Saturday 1st October. The topic is on “Connecting Classroom Learning […]
This week we are grateful to have Yuemei Li as our interviewee. Yuemei, who teaches at our Confucius Classroom School Devonport High School for Girls in Plymouth, Devon, will […]
This week we are pleased to be interviewing Lucy Wicks, who will be presenting the workshop “Progression in Phonics: Developing Learners’ Confidence in Speaking” at our 19th Annual Chinese […]
We are delighted to announce that the Enquiry-based Subject Expert Micro-programme 2022-2023 is now open to applications. This unique Mandarin-specific and enquiry-based professional development micro-programme – which has been delivered […]
We are pleased to announce that our Mandarin Upskilling Course, now in its fifth year, is open for enrolments for a September start. If you are a qualified primary or […]
We are excited to announce that our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will be running again this year on Saturday 1st October at the IOE. To book your place, click here. […]
We are delighted to announce that the Early Career Professional Development – Mandarin Teacher Micro-programme 2022-2023 is now open to applications. In line with the Early Career Framework, this highly […]
We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Young Photographers’ Competition. Entrants were able to enter their work in any of five categories: Chinese Community and Friends, My […]
The theme of the 2022 Annual Chinese Teacher Conference is “Be the Change”. If you are a teacher with an idea for a workshop for the conference please get in […]
Winners of the MEP Tourism Project 2021 were recently treated to a day of work experience with the China-focussed digital marketing agency Qumin in Camden, London. The winners were students […]
We are excited to announce that our Young Photographers’ Competition is now open for submissions. The contest, now in its seventh year of running, aims to challenge cultural stereotypes of […]
*Please note that the event was initially planned for Friday 21st of January and has now been rescheduled to Monday 28th March 2022* The sixth Schools and Universities Day will […]
Year 10 Mandarin Excellence Programme students at Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Walsall created this video (below) to summarize their experience of the Mandarin Tourism Marketing project they did in […]
We are delighted to be able to launch twelve new MEP Student Projects for use with your Key Stage 4 students. We hope these resources give your Year 10s or […]
In this blog post, MEP Coordinator Kay McLeod describes the Year 10 Tourism project which started in 2021. You can view the permanent project website here. In July 2021, Year […]
The inaugural meeting of UCL IOE PGCE Languages (Mandarin Pathway) Alumni Network took place on Zoom on Thursday 9th September. This event marked the 10th anniversary celebration of PGCE Mandarin […]
The 18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference took place on Saturday 11th September 2021 at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. The IOE Confucius Institute Annual Chinese Conference is […]
Xiaoming Zhu (XZ) and Kay McLeod (KM) sat down to chat about the upcoming Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on Saturday, September 11th. Below is an edited version of their conversation. […]
We are delighted to announce that the Mandarin Excellence Programme will continue to be delivered by the UCL Institute of Education in partnership with the British Council for a further […]
This week we are interviewing Kim Wang, who will be presenting the workshop “Mandarin through Project-Based Learning to connect to the real world and the real audience” at our 18th Annual […]
In the run up to the Annual Conference, we took the opportunity to interview Sylvania Choy, who will be presenting the workshop “If students can lead in the classroom, why […]
Our CI is delighted to welcome Andrew Scrimgeour to our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference this year, where he will be delivering a pre-conference plenary on Friday 10th September, on the […]
This year we have two separate workshops both centred on student engagement, to be delivered by Yi Zhang and Fu Xiong. Yi Zhang will focus her workshop on effective strategies […]
We are delighted to announce an exciting and unique CPD micro-programme which has been developed by IOE CI for first-year and second-year Early Career Teachers (ECTs), formally called NQTs and […]
Today we are speaking to Katharine Carruthers (KC), the IOE Confucius Institute Director & UCL Pro-Vice-Provost for East Asia, about the upcoming Annual Conference. We are also pleased to be […]
We are excited to announce that we are preparing to host the 2021 Annual Conference in person at the IOE this year, subject to Government guidelines. This year the Conference will […]
We are delighted to announce that our teacher training course, the Mandarin Upskilling Course, is open for enrolments for September, in what will be its fourth year of running. If […]
You may remember at the start of the year us telling you about the Newman Prize for English Jueju competition from the University of Oklahoma that we were collaborating with, […]
春节快乐! This month saw the end of the Year of the Rat and the start of the Chinese New Year of the Ox. While festivities looked a little different this […]
UCL IOE Confucius Institute have always enjoyed a close relationship with Peking University (PKU), our partner University in China. In November 2020, we launched a new programme in collaboration with […]