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.
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Study: COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to avoidable heart-related deaths in England
Lower rates of hospital attendance for urgent heart problems during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to avoidable deaths in England, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, a marked decline in patient visits to Emergency Departments (EDs) was observed in England and the US, including for people with heart problems.
In this study, published online in the journal
Circulation cardiovascular quality and outcomes, researchers at UCL s Institute of Health Informatics estimated the effect of reduced ED visits for suspected cardiac disease on non-COVID-19 related cardiac mortality in England.