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Greig City Academy is the only state school in Haringey to offer a classics course and a Latin GCSE. The school is also part of the Mandarin Excellence Programme. The Greig Trust and the Church of England co-sponsor the Academy. [1] David Greig, a successful local businessman, founded the Greig Trust in memory of his mother in 1949.
The initiative aims to boost GCSE Latin entries and will be modelled on the success of the Mandarin Excellence Programme, launched in 2016 in response to the growing importance of Mandarin as a global language. The programme now involves 75 schools across the country with more than 6,000 pupils learning Mandarin towards fluency. [26] With the ...
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Many online courses in Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese and some other varieties are available through commercial, governmental and nonprofit websites catering to speakers of English and over a hundred other languages. [38] Free and Paid-for courses are also offered via podcasts. Software is also available to help students pronounce, read ...
The center was established in 1961 by Stanford University to meet the stringent research and educational needs of Stanford University students. In 1963, the Inter−University Board was created and the official name became the Inter−University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), commonly referred to as the "Stanford Center," with several top American universities contributing funds ...
The 100 Group was a collection of the 50 leading state school heads and 50 independent school heads selected in discussion between former Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, headmaster of Brighton College, Richard Cairns, and Joan Deslandes, headteacher of Kingsford Community School.
In June 2018, the administration of Harrow Hong Kong decided to only teach simplified Chinese in its kindergarten and primary school's Mandarin classes, even though the territory it is located in uses traditional Chinese, on the basis that Hong Kong's environment will be different when 2047, the scheduled end of the special administrative ...
Confucius Institute of Brittany in Rennes, France A Confucius Institute at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. Confucius Institutes (CI; Chinese: 孔子学院; pinyin: Kǒngzǐ Xuéyuàn) are public educational and cultural promotion programs funded and arranged currently by the Chinese International Education Foundation [] (CIEF), a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO ...