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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]