Manchester

Education International

曼彻斯特国际教育中心

MEI provides a bespoke "one to one" service for Chinese students, according to each individual’s needs and aspirations, which is tailored to the practicalities and logistics of studying abroad.

With extensive and high-quality international resources, MEI has provided opportunities for high school and vocational school students who want to further their education abroad.

In Shanghai, there are 20 vocational colleges in higher education and almost 60 vocational colleges in the FE sector. Although many of the students may attend degree courses at local universities in Shanghai, studying abroad is out of reach for most of them.

Being aware of this, MEI has worked with a variety of universities in UK who can offer degree courses in appropriate vocational subjects, as well as assisting the students in improving their English. Therefore making it possible for their dreams to come true.

This successful programme continues to develop further not only between Shanghai and UK, but also excitingly extending to Jiangsu and to UK campuses at Middle East higher education institutions.

Flying from Shanghai to Manchester, the enthusiastic group of students waved goodbye to their parents and began their adventure!

In Manchester, they experienced interactive classrooms, observed various lectures and visited laboratories and libraries.They soon realised that the classroom experience in UK was so different from that in China. Classrooms had a buzz and there was much more interaction between teachers and students. They also had lots of opportunity to practice and improve their English!

The activities were not restricted to the classroom and they very much enjoyed exploring the campus and finding facilities to suit and extend their talents. They discovered that, as well as studying, good healthand fitness was an essential. They tried out the gym, basketball courts,swimming pool and even indoor climbing walls.

Even discovering British food was more interesting than they anticipated! Lunches on campus were both nutritious and delicious.

During the weekend, visits were made to explore Oxford,Cambridge and London, allowing the students to experience many different aspects of British culture.

It was a very interesting, exciting and varied ten days!

Shanghai Municipal Education Examination Authority (SMEEA) wanted to extend their knowledge and understanding of university examination processes in UK and Ireland: how the systems operates, its policies and their implementation, the use of cutting edge technology within the system and how its results are evaluated.

SMEEA approached MEI with their needs and were delighted to be linked with examination officers and university professionals in order to carry out discussions, meetings and exchange.

In April 2019, MEI arranged for six delegates from SMEEA to visit Cambridge Assessment International Education, LSE and University of Manchester. They also met with Ofsted officers. In Ireland, they visited Trinity College, Dublin and the Focus Capital Partners to understand examination systems there.

Film Education is the latest of the MEI programmes and is still in the development and investigative stage.

The idea is to use the media of film to make the learning of English in China, especially in Vocational Colleges more interesting and more exciting, to motivate and engage students to develop their language abilities, to encourage fluency and use of language in a more relaxing and modern way.

Teaching will take place both through and about film.

Teachers will be encouraged and enabled touse film content in the teaching of English and also to teach the vocational elements of film making.