On January 30, the 2024 World Digital Education Conference, co-hosted by the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, and the Shanghai Municipal Peoples Government, opened in Shanghai, China. Professor Zhang Minxuan, Director of the UNESCO Teacher Education Centre, attended the opening and closing ceremonies of the conference.On the morning of January 31, the parallel session themed Digitalization of Educational Governance and Digital Ed

January 28-31, Ambassador Dennis Francis, President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, led a delegation to visit China at the invitation of the Chinese government. On the afternoon of January 28, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) hosted a roundtable seminar themed Shared Visions of the UN and China: Peace, Prosperity, Progress, Sustainability. The seminar was chaired by Professor Li Kaisheng, Vice President of SIIS. Professor Yang Jiemian, Chairman

2023 marked the first year of fully studying and implementing the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a crucial year for connecting the past and future in the implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the 10th anniversary of the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2023, the Research Institute for International and Comparative Education (RIICE) and the UNESCO Teacher Education Centre (TEC), guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with

On the afternoon of January 4, the 2024 Training Meeting for Liaison Directors of the Shanghai Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) Project was successfully held at Xiafei Theater of Shanghai Normal University. The meeting was chaired by Associate Professor Zhu Xiaohu from the Shanghai TALIS Secretariat. Zhang Jin, Deputy Director of the Personnel Division of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Sun Taotao, Researcher of the division; Professor Zhang Minxuan, Director of th

Digital transformation of education is a key focus area of the UNESCO Teacher Education Centre. In July 2023, entrusted by SEAMEO (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization), Professor Ning Bo of our Centre participated in the compilation of the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring ReportTechnology in Education – Southeast Asia, providing typical cases of China’s digital transformation of education for the report.The theme of the report contributed by Professor Ningbo’s team isPromoting