On Thursday 15th September, the UCEC team made a visit to Edinburgh College, a government-funded Further and Higher Education College located in Scotland, UK. With around 26,000 student enrolments, 1,200 staff and four campuses, Edinburgh College is one of the largest colleges and leading publicly-funded further education (TVET) providers in the UK. The college has developed …
In July 2022, the UCEC team were invited to visit Barking & Dagenham College, a general education college offering professional & technical courses for 16-18s, 19+, higher education programs, apprenticeships and traineeships. Barking & Dagenham College is also home to the East London Institute of Technology which was launched in 2021 and is one of …
During the COVID-19 pandemic, travel to China and face-to-face training was impossible. Our team at Childbase International, who specialise in early years education and teacher training, quickly transformed their content to be accessible online, using interactive online platforms such as Zoom and VooV. Since April 2022, we have worked diligently with our Chinese partners from …
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Since 2019, we have worked closely with our partners in Sharing Parenting and BNU Education Training Centre to introduce, localise and implement a variety of parent skill enhancement courses and workshops from the UK to China. The training was delivered face-to-face in a workshop style, when possible. However, online delivery was also available if offline …
New Vice-Chairs: Cindy Rampersaud & Sir Michael Wilshaw UCEC is delighted to announce the appointment of our two new Vice-Chairs: Cindy Rampersaud and Sir Michael Wilshaw. As an executive leader, Cindy has over 25 years’ experience in global and UK-based organisations within the education, media and third sectors, most recently at Pearson Plc, where she …
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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