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Recent results from The University of Queensland’s annual Chinese Writing Contest show the value of Chinese language learning in Queensland schools has steadily increased over the years.

Listen to Professor Aveling's public lecture titled 'Poetics on the Street: Crossing Genres, Languages and Geo-Cultural Borders'

‘It’s the year 2500. Space station HASS has discovered a new planet and there is only room for one School on-board the space ship - which school should go?’

Cynthia Burnett Travel Scholarship

The Cynthia Burnett Travel Scholarship is to encourage and assist meritorious students of European languages other than English at UQ to improve their language proficiency through an in-country experience.

Chinese language teaching staff in the School of Languages and Cultures as well as the UQ Confucius Institute facilitated various activities to provide visiting students and teachers with a “taste” of learning Chinese at The University of Queensland.

More than 300 grade 12 students visited UQ last week to take part in the School of Languages and Cultures annual ‘Taste of Languages’ week.

The III South-South Dialogues Conference was held this year from 21 to 23 November at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina.