10th Festival of Education in UK

The 10th Festival of Education was held at Wellington College, Berkshire UK on the 20th – 21st June 2019. It is the largest and most prestigious event that attracts educators from across the UK and beyond. Headline speakers included ministers responsible for education, leading researchers and a wide variety of celebrities and renown educators. The event attracted around 5000 attendees who left inspired and challenged in their thinking about education.

▲The UK minister for school systems

▼Chief Inspector of Schools

The Wellington College China Institute of Learning (IoL) contributed to the event through a strand focusing on international education. Presentations and workshops were led by IoL directors focusing on:

Each of the sessions were well attended reflecting the growing interest in international education, particularly in China.  (http://educationfest.co.uk/)

Positive feedback as:

Contributing to the Festival of Education represents the authentic and active partnership between Wellington College in England and the schools in China. Furthermore, it represents the committed of Wellington College China to act relentlessly to enhance and innovate educational practice to maximising the opportunities for the 4,000 pupils that attend their schools in China. The IoL plays a central role in supporting the Wellington College China schools in developing their practice through providing professional learning opportunities and research designed to inform policy and practice.

The IoL will be offering members of the education community in China and beyond to attend professional learning opportunities offered by the IoL in the coming academic year through:

To learn more about professional learning opportunities offered by the IoL please following the link (http://iol.huilieducation.cn/), or scan below QR code for registration.

 COBIS Early Years Conference 2020

Following on from the announcement that the Wellington College China had been awarded the position as a professional learning centre of excellence by the Council of British International School (COBIS), the presentation delivered by Dr Ahmed Hussain at the COBIS conference was picked up by the leading education publication in the UK, the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and featured in an article identifying the need for further research into international and bilingual education (https://www.tes.com/news/education-research-not-relevant-us-international-schools-say). 

The partnership with COBIS as a professional learning centre of excellence in East Asia has inspire the Institute of Learning will lead an Early Years conference; Excellence in teaching and learning in the Early Years – Research and Practice, in Shanghai in February 2020 focusing on research-based. This will involve Julie Fischer as keynote speaker.

Professor Julie Fisher 

Author of ‘The Foundations for Learning’

and ‘Interacting or Interfering?’

Workshops from innovative and outstanding educators in International and Bilingual schools will share strategy and practice on evidence based approaches such as: outdoor learning in tropical climates, responsive planning techniques in an international context and ways to assess and monitor the quality of deep level learning with bilingual children.

A World Café event will also be facilitated by Karen Ardley to enable networking and sharing of challenges, solutions and common issues. A pre-conference gathering will be held on the Friday before the event.

To register interest and find out more about travel logistics, please email: shengjia.di@huilieducation.cn, or visit website: www.cobis.org.uk/ey2020.