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By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-02 09:34 Share CLOSE Year 7 students in the Mandarin Excellence Programme attend a study day at the University College London. Photo provided to China Daily
Mandarin classes in secondary schools in England over the past five years have proved so popular that the numbers of students studying the language are on course to have doubled by the 2022-23 academic year.
The classes have been offered under the Mandarin Excellence Programme, or MEP, which is co-run by the University College London Institute of Education Confucius Institute for Schools, or IOE CI, the Department for Education and the British Council.