UCL Institute of Education launches new Mandarin teaching hub

The UCL Institute for Education (IOE) Confucius Institute yesterday opened its new teacher training and research facility. The respective presidents of UCL and Peking University (PKU), Professor Michael Arthur and Professor Lin Jianhua, cut the ribbon in a ceremony at the fully refurbished centre in Woburn Square. The Institute is a bilateral collaboration, between UCL, Peking University (PKU) and Peking University High School. It aims to train enough teachers of Mandarin Chinese to give every secondary school in England the opportunity to teach Chinese. There are currently more than 9,000 students studying Chinese on curriculum in 45 IOE Confucius Classrooms, with Chinese GCSE entries having grown by 70% since 2008. It is hoped that the work of the IOE Confucius Institute will continue this trajectory in years to come. The new teacher training facility will increase the number of Chinese teachers trained significantly, providing schools with a reliable supply of teachers with the most effective language teaching skills.
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