Celebrating the Spring Festival with good friends and colleagues On Tuesday 15th February 2022, UCEC hosted our close partners, friends and colleagues from Childbase Partnership, Activate Learning and UCL to celebrate the end of the 2022 Spring Festival! It was also the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is celebrated as the …
On Tuesday 30th November, UCEC was warmly invited to visit Kingsford Community School, a specialist language and secondary school in Beckton in the London Borough of Newham. Kingsford Community School was one of the first schools in the UK to introduce Mandarin lessons in 2001. It was also the first Confucius Classroom in the UK …
On October 23rd 2021, the Thirty-First Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress voted and passed the Family Education Promotion Law of the People’s Republic of China, putting forward new requirements and norms for government, society and schools for the promotion of family education. The enactment of the Promotion Law triggered …
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From Left: Sir Michael Wilshaw, Geoff Barton, Neil Carmichael On Thursday 8th July, UCEC hosted its first in-person Education Expert Group gathering of 2021. Members representative of the UCL IOE Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education, Sharing Parenting, Activate Learning, Wild Search, Dukes Education, and Ofsted gathered together to discuss the importance of good …
The first Global Forum on Child Development and Family Education was successfully held on the 14th and 15th of May 2021 in the city of Shenzhen, China. This forum was co-sponsored by Shenzhen Education Bureau, BNU, UCL, Shenzhen Futian District People’s Government, and organised by the Faculty of Education of BNU and Shenzhen Futian District …
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On the 20th January 2021, the draft Family Education Law was submitted to the 25th session of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress for the first time. Family education plays an extremely important role in the national education system, but there has been a long-standing vacancy of relevant laws and consequently many related …
Neil’s new article, which discussed the need for an education and training ‘Skills Revolution‘, was recently featured in Research Professional News – a platform which provides news, analysis and comment on research policy, research funding and research politics. In his article, Neil argued that levelling up reforms needs to occur at every level of education. …
On Tuesday 20th October, UCEC spoke with TES’s Senior Editor Dan Worth about our work to support education development and exchange between China and the UK. Following lockdown guidelines, our interview was conducted through Zoom. Nevertheless, it was a great opportunity to share our thoughts with Dan and speak about our various on-going projects and …
On Tuesday 29th September, Neil and the UCEC team travelled to Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket, where our new partners for developing child and family education in China, Sharing Parenting, is based. Sharing Parenting is a multi-award winning, UK-based education organisation that delivers parenting support in the form of Educational Courses and various types of …
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The UCL Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education works to improve quality in early years teacher education in China, to transform education for 170 million children and their families. The Centre has recently published a number of reports exploring a variety of themes including: the characteristics of effective parenting and parenting programmes, understanding assessment …
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