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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On June 22nd 2017 the official opening of the altered, revitalised and refurbished home of UCL IOE Confucius Institute took place at 15 Woburn Square, London. UCL Provost and President […]

The 2017 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference is taking place this Friday and Saturday. We spoke to IOE CI Director, Katharine Carruthers to ask her about the workshop element of this […]

The plenary sessions for the 2017 conference promise to be as diverse and informative as always, covering a broad range of topics over the two day conference.

Every year at the IOE CI Annual Chinese Teaching Conference, we have a range of performances from primary and secondary school students who are learning Chinese. The IOE CI National […]

We are continuing our series of 2017 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference blogposts with an interview with Kay McLeod, who is the Confucius Classroom Manager at Beths Grammar School. Kay has […]

Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Expanding Excellence: Raising Expectation, Increasing Fluency The IOE Confucius Institute Annual Chinese Conference is the largest CPD opportunity of its kind in the UK for […]

Following our interview with Katharine Carruthers last week about the 2017 Annual Chinese Teaching Conference, we have caught up with IOE CI Teacher Training Coordinator, Philippa Vallely for a blog […]

Teacher Training We offer a variety of teacher training opportunities. Click the links below to read more about the short courses we are planning for 2016-17 (subject to demand). Courses […]

To celebrate the completion of the New Edition Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese Student Book, we caught up with Series Editor Katharine Carruthers, Pearson Editor Charonne Prosser and Series Writers Yan Hua and Michelle Tate to discuss the content of the book and the process of editing.

This year’s Annual Chinese Teaching Conference is taking place on 23rd and 24th June at the UCL Institute of Central London. The Conference is the IOE Confucius Institute’s biggest annual […]

In the run up to the 2017 Annual Chinese Conference, we will be writing a series of blogposts based on the Conference workshops. In this first post, we ask Liqun […]

We are pleased to annouce our Teaching Mandarin Grammar Course is now aceepting bookings. The course will take place on Thursday 30th March between 10.30am and 4pm. This grammar training […]

The third annual Schools and Universities Day took place last Friday and was attended by 24 universities from all over the UK and over 170 students from English schools. There […]

在新春来临之际，UCL IOE孔院的老师和同事祝各位同仁鸡年如意，合家团圆，恭喜发财！ 感谢多才多艺的汉办老师精心设计的贺年卡，在此祝福您。 Chinese New Year (Chun Jie, 春节）of Rooster falls on Saturday 28th January this year. Colleagues at UCL IOE Confucius Institute wish you a Happy and Prosperous ‘Rooster’ […]

Yuchen Li is a Mandarin Chinese teacher at Castle School, Taunton and is a former student of the UCL IOE Mandarin Chinese PGCE. Yuchen has been exploring the world of […]

The Dynasties, daggers and duty: a Chinese Cinema Study Day for KS3 Mandarin will take place at the British Film Institute (BFI) on Tuesday 31st January between 10:30 – 15:30. […]

A UCL Memorandum of Understanding broadening education collaboration was among high-profile signings at the 2016 UK-China Education Summit and UK-China High Level People-to-People Dialogue in Shanghai. Katharine Carruthers, UCL’s Pro-Vice-Provost […]

This week hundreds of secondary school pupils in England have begun intensive lessons in Mandarin Chinese as the first initiative of its kind is rolled out across the country. The […]

IOE Confucius Institute’s National Network Coordinator Xiaoming Zhu was invited by the Cyprus University Confucius Institute to join their Forum on Teaching Chinese Language and Culture in Schools from 18th […]

On Saturday 5th November, the IOE CI’s Primary Network Co-ordinator, James Trapp, travelled to the new premises of the De Montfort University Confucius Institute in the heart of the university […]

Mary Oboh won the first prize in the individual category at the 9th Chinese Bridge Speaking Competition hosted by Hanban in Yunnan last month. A delegation of five candidates from […]

James Trapp, Primary Network Coordinator at the UCL IOE Confucius Institute, was recently interviewed by Cypress Books. In the interview, he revealed his life long passion for all things about […]