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Language Centre to host Chinese Teachers

(4 June 2004)

Following a visit by the Vice Chancellor to the Jiangsu Provincial Education Department in China and the attendance of Language Centre teacher-trainer, Joanna Coley to a tendering conference in Nanjing on 20th May, the University's Language Centre has made a successful bid to host 30-36 teachers from the province's primary and secondary schools, this summer.

These teachers will join more than 200 from other parts of China and their training follows on another successful British Council sponsored course for Jiangsu province run both in China and Durham. As co-ordinator of an on-going training project with the JPED, Joanna was interviewed by the local television network (estimated audience 20 million) about the University of Durham Language Centre's work with the JPED and current training issues with Chinese teachers.