Oliver Lin playing piano at Wycliffe College from Wycliffe College on Vimeo. When bullied teenager Oliver Lin hit his lowest moment it was music – his “only friend” – which would walk him through the next 3 years.. Alone and isolated at school in Taiwan, struggling with grades and weight, the 14-year-old Oliver even considered suicide. […]
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[email protected] Community Centre – London Chinatown
[email protected] is a monthly lecture and networking series aiming to inspire, motivate and energise people. Talks will range from topics such as business, culture, entrepreneurship, and personal development. Every 4th month there will be a panel debate focussing on topics relating to the Chinese Community. The first Talk event ‘Securing top jobs and executing effectively to […]
Do you Prefer to Read in English or Chinese?
By Junying Kirk As a bilingual person myself, fully competent in my mother tongue Chinese and English as a foreign language, I am curious. Given the choice of reading in English and your own language, whatever that may be, which would you pick? Obviously I was brought up reading Chinese, and I have been reading […]
Education Minister Elizabeth Truss – Maths programme with China
A new teacher-led maths programme agreed with China will mean teachers from the best schools in the world will teach in and work with schools in England, Education Minister Elizabeth Truss announced recently. She said that the programme – part of the Government’s £11m new maths hubs programme, a national network of maths centres of […]