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Hello and welcome to Education Today. I'm Wuyou. Farrah: I'm Farrah.
First of all, Shanghai-style maths lessons are promoted in UK.
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The British Education Secretary, Liz Truss has also visited a Shanghai middle school and attended maths class there.She showed a great interest in the school's maths teaching method.
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Chen Zhuhui,one of the maths teachers from Shanghai, also known as "Mr Bean" by all his students, has started his Shanghai-style maths lesson.
Chen joined St Vincent's Catholic Primary School in central London.
He invites one student from each group to compete against the others to answers questions at the fastest speed.
At first Chen appears to blend in very well with the students throughout the one-hour session.
According to Chen, familiarity with his students didn't come easy. He said that the first week was the most difficult since he was new to the school.
Li Dong, another Shanghai math teacher teaching at St Vincent's through an education exchange between the British Department for Education and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, said that the biggest difficulty they faced was the language barrier. There was difficulty expressing math terms.
He would ask English math teachers many English words he doesn't know how to say. For example, the plus sign.
The school appears to be supportive in accommodating the two Shanghai math teachers.
Marina Coleman, head-teacher at St Vincent's, said that she thinks having the Chinese teachers is an excellent opportunity for her school.
Debbie Morgan, Director for Primary at National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, is very pleased with the outcome of the exchange program after observing the math lessons across England.
He says that "They are better at times tables in Shanghai than they are here and that's perhaps getting in the way it's slowing our children down with their calculation. " Morgan also said that the the Shanghai approach is a very thorough one. "One of the other things that are coming through is that the Shanghai style is a very step-by-step, logical approach, with far more detail."
But at the same time, someone in the UK held different opinions towards this importing Chinese Maths teacher idea.
Jeanette Winterson, the British writer.
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Now let's go to Dubai.
Dubai's new operations for private schools
Dubai's private school sectore is showing record growth. There's an increasing demand for education in the UAE but especially in the quality of education. Quality assurance remains top on the agenda of regulating body Knowledge and Hum,an development Authority or KHDA. KHDA has recently announced its two business models for private school operations.
Under the new "Branch school model" local commercial partners are allowed to be involved only in the commercial arrangements of the school land, buildings and finances, while the school is the sole owner. The "shared management" model prohibits the use of brands, logos or other collateral of a foreign provider if the local investment partner is responsible for any part of the schools operations.
The main purpose is to attract international schools to provide high quality outstanding education in Dubai.
Last year there was a 10% growth in private school operations and based on an annual growth of 9% the city is looking at hosting 96 private schools catering to 132,000 students by 2020.
And that's it for this Episode of Education Today.
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