Empowering teachers

The Swire Chinese Language Foundation is a UK philanthropic initiative that funds the teaching of Chinese language in British state schools, supported by a ten-year, £25 million commitment from John Swire & Sons Limited that marked the Group's 200th anniversary and 150th anniversary of doing business in China. Over the course of last year, the Foundation collaborated with Swire Shipping's Digital Products Team, supported by the Swire Digital Centre in India, to develop an online resource sharing platform for teachers of the Chinese language. The web-based resource offers teaching materials, lesson plans, multimedia content, assessment tools, and many other features, so teachers can exchange ideas and best practices and access an extensive repository of educational materials. The platform's intuitive design ensures that teachers can easily navigate and utilise its features, regardless of their technical proficiency. The streamlined application created in collaboration with the shipping company and its web developer seeks to foster a strong sense of community among teachers of Chinese, enhancing their capabilities and enabling them to make a lasting impact on their students' language learning abilities.