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 […]
IOE CI is now recruiting to the post of Mandarin Excellence Programme Coordinator . There is a huge variety in the role of MEP Programme Coordinator. Whoever is appointed will work […]
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 […]
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 […]