Our 16th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference, ‘Looking Back, Thinking Forward,’ will take place on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th June. On Saturday 15th, there will be a plenary titled ‘Expanding Knowledge: […]

Our 16th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference, ‘Looking Back, Thinking Forward,’ will take place on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th June. James Stagg, Mandarin Consultant and Specialist Leader of Education at the […]

Our 16th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference, ‘Looking Back, Thinking Forward,’ will take place on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th June. In the run up to the conference, the IOE CI […]

Master of Teaching (MTeach) at the Institute of Education The MTeach is a 180 credit Masters course with flexible mode of study (up to 5 years). Each module of the […]

Chris Webster, former IOE PGCE student and current Programme Director of the Swire Chinese Language Centre in Oxford, was awarded a scholarship to a Chinese university in 2011. The IOE […]

We recently published a blogpost featuring Dr. Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor in Chinese Urban History at the University of Leicester. The post features information about the bilingual Pre-U website Dr. […]

Dr. Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor in Chinese Urban History at the University of Leicester, has been developing a bilingual Pre-U website in English and Chinese composed of lesson plans, source […]

Peking University, regarded as an important strategic partner by University College London, recently set up the Peking University Oxford Campus in Boar’s Hill, Oxfordshire. IOE CI Director, Katharine Carruthers was […]

In celebration of the Year of the Pig, we are featuring a series of blogposts on our website to highlight the Chinese New Year celebrations of Confucius Classroom and Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) schools. For […]

In celebration of the Year of the Pig, we are featuring a series of blogposts on our website to highlight the Chinese New Year celebrations of Confucius Classroom and Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) schools. For […]

In celebration of the Year of the Pig, we are featuring a series of blogposts on our website to highlight the Chinese New Year celebrations of Confucius Classroom and Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) schools. For […]

In celebration of the Year of the Pig, we are featuring a series of blogposts on our website to highlight the Chinese New Year celebrations of Confucius Classroom and Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) schools. For […]

Last month, on 18th January, the British Film Institute (BFI) at Southbank hosted their annual study day for KS3 Mandarin students. The event entitled “Myths Culture and Modernity in Chinese […]

In celebration of the Year of the Pig, we are featuring a series of blogposts on our website to highlight the Chinese New Year celebrations of Confucius Classroom and Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) schools. For […]

In celebration of the Year of the Pig, we are featuring a series of blogposts on our website to highlight the Chinese New Year celebrations of Confucius Classroom and Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) schools. […]

In celebration of the Year of the Pig, we are featuring a series of blogposts on our website to highlight the Chinese New Year celebrations of Confucius Classroom and Mandarin […]

The IOE CI is very excited to announce the winners of the 2018 Young Photographers Competition. The winning photographs were exhibited at UCL North Cloisters over December 2018 and January 2019. […]

The well-established Chinese Language Assistant programme run by the British Council provides Chinese language assistants (CLAs) to UK schools. The CLAs are experienced teachers, or graduates in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, […]

The IOE Confucius Institute 2018 Young Photographers’ Competition is accepting entries from anyone under the age of 18 years old. The competition has been running for five years and during […]

Jane Woo, Mandarin teacher at Christ’s College Finchley and former IOE PGCE student,  has been awarded a Pearson Silver Teaching Award. The Pearson Teaching Awards is an annual award honoured by […]

The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) Mandarin Chinese PGCE course offers dedicated Mandarin-specific subject tuition for trainee teachers of languages.  Tuition draws on the best current Mandarin teaching practice in UK schools through an […]

The UCL IOE Confucius Institute/Hanban Annual China Study Camps took place in the last two weeks of July 2018. The camps were a great success with 220 students from 17 […]

In this last academic year the UCL IOE CI team have once again delivered a varied programme of teacher training from standalone workshops to year-long courses and, of course, our […]

Mandarin Excellence Programme students from across the country spent the first two weeks of July taking part in the first ever Intensive Learning in China study trip, which saw the […]

A new report published by the CBI has highlighted the role that the Mandarin Excellence Programme can have in helping UK businesses grow their trade internationally. The “Winning Worldwide” Export […]

The IOE Confucius Institute 2018 Young Photographers’ Competition is open and accepting entries from anyone under the age of 18 years old. The competition has been running for five years […]

The successful 15th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference took place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June this year. Over the two day event, there were a wide range of activities […]

The 2018 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will take place in two days (Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June) and what better way to learn more about the conference than asking […]

In September 2014, we launched our Young Photographers’ Competition, to celebrate National Confucius Institute Day. The competition which has grown in popularity ever since and is now in its fifth year, […]

The 2018 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will take place next Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June. Philippa Vallely, the IOE CI Teacher Training Coordinator, speaks in this blogpost about the […]

The 2018 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will take place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June. The Conference will host a range of teaching workshops as well as plenaries on […]

The 2018 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will take place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June. The Conference will host a range of teaching workshops as well as plenaries on […]

  MTeach New Module: Understanding the Teaching and Learning of Mandarin Chinese in Schools In partnership with the UCL Institute of Education, the UCL IOE Confucius Institute (IOE CI)  is […]

The 2018 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will take place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June. The Conference will host a range of teaching workshops as well as plenaries on […]

The IOE Confucius Institute is now recruiting a new Project Officer to join our team.

Astrid Fiess, head of German at Handsworth Grammar School, joined the 2016 Experience China course in Shanghai. She told us about her experience before and after the trip, and how […]

The 2018 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will take place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June. The Conference will host a range of teaching workshops as well as plenaries on […]

We are very happy to talk to Annabel Hurley from Oundle School about her workshop at this year’s Annual Chinese Conference. The 2018 Annual Teaching Conference; ‘Thinking globally, acting locally: motivating Mandarin […]

Lars Kabel, head of classics and teacher of MFL at Old Swinford Hospital School, joined the Experience China teachers training course in Shanghai, back in 2016. Two years have passed […]

The 2018 Annual Teaching Conference; ‘Thinking globally, acting locally: motivating Mandarin learners around the globe’ will take place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June. There will be 30 workshops over the […]

Annual Chinese Teaching Conference The IOE Confucius Institute Annual Chinese Conference is the largest CPD opportunity of its kind in the UK for teaching professionals in the subject area of […]

Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June 2018 We are excited to announce that the programme for our 15th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference is now live. The theme of the 2018 […]

More than three in four British business leaders believe speaking Mandarin will give school leavers a career advantage. Of over 1,000 senior business decision makers questioned by YouGov for the […]

Earlier this month, the IOE Confucius Institute ran a creative dog-making competition in partnership with the Embassy of China, to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Ten selected primary school across the […]

We have recently featured two blogposts about Mandarin Chinese at Melbourn Village College (MVC). Chinese was highlighted in the school’s 2017 Ofsted Report in which Oftsed stated that through the introduction of […]

A cutting-edge book by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) academics has been released investigating the approaches to teaching Mandarin in English-speaking schools. The book is the first to draw on […]