Become an Engage with China Scholar and benefit from two years fully-funded education at A-level through our partnership with Wycombe Abbey Schools in China. Discover some of the many opportunities awaiting a young person here Applications open for the 2024-26 cohort of Engage with China Scholars for young British pupils to study their A-levels inContinue reading “Pioneers, ambassadors and global citizens of the future”
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Students’ climate change conference seeks consensus
More than 200 pupils from twenty-three schools and from four continents took part in a climate change themed Model United Nations Conference on Friday 02 February 2024. Using their best negotiation skills, pupils debated and negotiated to find consensus on the resolutions from COP28 as well as on single-use plastics, fast fashion and food waste. Continue reading “Students’ climate change conference seeks consensus”
Consumerism=climate change?
At the heart of our annual Good Cop Bad Cop Model UN Conference is negotiation around climate change, the biggest challenge of our times. Pupils aged 15-18 from 10 countries, including China, UK, Brazil, Dominica and Sri Lanka, will speak at our upcoming conference on 02 February 2024 from the perspective of another country whilstContinue reading “Consumerism=climate change?”
Optimism in the air
It may be windy, wet and gloomy at the start of 2024 but we are filled with optimism & hope for the year ahead as we continue to build engagement, opportunity & China literacy in the classroom. So why the optimism? Despite school budgetary constraints, covid catch-up & capacity issues in schools, multiple schools andContinue reading “Optimism in the air”
Education enables dialogue with Chinese Ambassador
Engage with China is excited to host a senior level networking dinner with Chinese Ambassador, Zheng Zeguang, on 24 May 2023 in Central London. The theme of the evening is building education and dialogue as a means of widening opportunities, trust and engagement between China and the UK. The emphasis of the evening will beContinue reading “Education enables dialogue with Chinese Ambassador”
Educational pioneers in creating a “strategic resource for Global Britain”
“Governments can have policies,” says British Ambassador to China, Dame Caroline Wilson, “but it is ultimately people who deliver and implement those policies.” Speaking at a recent online forum for young adults who have spent time in China on the Generation UK programme, the Ambassador continued that it is vital, therefore, to have a rangeContinue reading “Educational pioneers in creating a “strategic resource for Global Britain””
‘Reverse Viking’ row: Norfolk to Denmark in pursuit of re-writing of the history of exploration
This Saturday, 08 August, Christian Havrehed, Danish adventurer, inspirational speaker & EwC Adventure Ambassador, will push off in an ocean-going rowing boat destined for Copenhagen in Denmark. This 300-nautical mile journey will include rowing both in the North Sea and up the Eider Kanal across Germany just as the Vikings did centuries ago. Setting outContinue reading “‘Reverse Viking’ row: Norfolk to Denmark in pursuit of re-writing of the history of exploration”
