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 […]
Yesterday morning (April 11 2018) Sky News ran a feature on the Mandarin Excellence Programme, in light of newly published YouGov research.
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 […]
As the Mandarin Excellence Programme enters its second year, TES caught up with two teachers who have been delivering the programme in a feature article that has been published online.
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 […]
Creating an interactive and dynamic teaching environment in the classroom can be a challenge that all teachers face from time to time. Whilst there are many strategies, teachers are now […]
Last week, we posted Chinese leads to good Ofsted Reports; Top tips from the Principal involved, which was the first blogpost in a three-part series about Mandarin at Melbourn Village College (MVC). […]
Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June, 2018 The UCL online store is open and ready to accept bookings for the 2018 IOE CI Annual Chinese Teaching Conference. This year’s Conference […]
St Mary Magdalene Academy, one of IOE Confucius Classrooms, welcomed the year of the Dog in style! The annual Chinatown Trip marked the beginning of celebrations as pupils participated in […]
Melbourn Village College (MVC), a 500 strong 11-16 state-funded secondary school in the picturesque village of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, is in its second year of teaching Chinese as part of the standard curriculum. […]
The Chinese New Year of the Dog will begin on this Friday 16th February. It is also commonly known as Spring Festival ( ‘Chun Jie’ 春节）and it is the biggest festival […]
A workshop on Technology and Online Classrooms was held last Thursday as part of our Dynamic Classroom series of teacher training workshops. The day was led by IOE CI Teacher […]
Last month UCL IOE Confucius Institute Director Katharine Carruthers was interviewed by the LanguageTech Podcast team. In the interview she details more about her passion for developing Chinese in schools across England, the Mandarin Excellence Programme and more.
Expressions of interest are now being accepted from schools that wish to become part of the Mandarin Excellence Programme from September 2019. To find out more about the Mandarin Excellence […]
To help primary schools celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dog, James Trapp (UCL IOE Primary Network Coordinator) worked with the British Council to develop some creative […]
Last week on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th January, we welcomed 70 Hanban teachers from our 45 Confucius Classrooms to come to London for a series of teacher training workshops […]
The fourth annual Schools and Universities Day took place last Friday, with students from 20 schools across England taking part and representatives from 22 universities in attendance. Similar to previous years, […]
The Mandarin Excellence Programme is now in its second year, with more than 1,000 new students joining the programme this year. The intensive language learning programme aims to improve proficiency […]
We are delighted to report that Katharine Carruthers UCL IOE Confucius Institute Director and Pro Vice Provost for East Asia has received an OBE in the 2018 New Year Honours […]
The 12th Global Confucius Institute Conference took place last week in Xi’an, the capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The event welcomed over 2,000 delegates from across the world, including […]
Earlier this month Mandarin Excellence Programme school Alexandra Park School welcomed a visit from Minister of State for School Standards, Nick Gibb MP. Mr Gibb spent the morning observing a […]
Over 100 pupils were last week praised by Education Secretary Justine Greening and Schools Standards Minister Nick Gibb on their high levels of achievements studying under UCL Institute of Education’s […]
The UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) organised ‘Education is GREAT’ Early-Years Campaign for 2017. As part of supporting the campaign, UCL IOE Confucius Institute welcomed a delegation of […]
In November an academic delegation, led by UCL President and Provost Professor Michael Arthur, visited China to strengthen the deep strategic partnership with Peking University (PKU) and deepen the connection […]
Following successful Pre-U support events over the past four years, UCL IOE Confucius Institute and Manchester Grammar School for Boys partnered together to deliver workshops for teachers based in the north, […]
Recently we received Professors Yoshikawa and Yamashita from Keio University in Japan at the UCL IOE Confucius Institute. Prof Yoshikawa specialises in Chinese film and literature, and Prof Yamashita is a […]
Over the weekend of 17th November, the winning photographs from the 2017 Young Photographers’ Competition were exhibited at China Exchange in Chinatown, London. Many of the winning students came with […]
UCL IOE Confucius Institute was recently described as an “incubator” for producing Chinese teachers in the UK, according to the Global Times. Below is the extract and the link to […]
We are very happy to announce the winners of this year’s IOE Confucius Institute Young Photographers Competition. The winning photographs will be exhibited at China Exchange in London’s Chinatown this […]
The British Council Chinese Language Assistant (CLA) training was held between 8th – 10th November. Over 70 enthusiastic Chinese Language Assistants (CLA), who has been working in primary or secondary schools […]
This post takes a quick look at 5 different resources that can be used to study Mandarin outside of the classroom.
UCL IOE Confucius Institute’s National Network Coordinator, Xiaoming Zhu was recently invited to speak at a Chinese teacher training event organised by Newcastle University Confucius Institute. The event was held […]
Friday 5th January 2018 The fourth annual Schools and Universities Day will take place at the UCL Institute of Education early next year. The event is free and is a unique […]
The Teaching Chinese Characters training took place on Thursday 19th October at the IOE Confucius Institute teacher training centre. Teachers from four different schools, as well the IOE CI’s Philippa […]
Hundreds of school pupils in England are on track towards fluency in Mandarin Chinese as part of a national language learning initiative which starts its second year this term. Progress […]
Our Annual Young Photographers’ Competition aims to encourage young people to share their photos and experiences of China with the world. Over the last three years, the competition photos have […]
As the first Chinese national who gained qualified teacher status in the UK, Xiaoming Zhu, our National Network Coordinator, has witnessed the amazing development of Mandarin Chinese as part of […]
UCL IOE tutors Colin Christie and Caroline Conlon tell us about their time studying beginner’s Mandarin Chinese at Peking University in Beijing… The UCL Institute of Education PGCE Languages course […]
The UCL IOE Confucius Institute 4th Annual Schools and Universities Day is now open for bookings. The event will take place at UCL Institute of Education on Friday 5th January […]
The IOE CI Young Photographers Competition is now open for 2017! The competition, which is in its fourth year, aims to dispel the cultural stereotypes of China through photography and show […]
The Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) is moving into its second year with the new schools joining the programme being announced next month. Miriam Williams, formerly of Essex-Anglo European School, has […]
Last weekend the last of the schools taking part in the 11th Annual China Study Camps touched down back in the UK after a 2 week trip to China. 27 […]
Hundreds of pupils put their Mandarin skills to the test earlier this month on the Mandarin Excellence Programme’s first ever intensive learning day.
The UCL IOE Confucius Institute 14th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference took place just over a week ago. The conference was a huge success with over 300 people in attendance and […]