Nicolas Idier promotes Chinese language teaching during visit to Corsica

Nicolas Idier is accompanied on his 3-day trip to Corsica by Shai-Ing Ho, academy inspector, regional pedagogical inspector for Chinese for the academies of Lyon, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Aix-Marseille, Nice and Corsica.
This Tuesday morning they were welcomed at Lycée Giocante de Casabianca by Bruno Bénazech, DASEN from Haute-Corse, Anne Malka, principal of the school, Sylvie Camugli, deputy principal, Xin Devichi, Chinese teacher and Pierre Rossi, principal of the Simon-Vinciguerra college where Chinese is also taught. Full house for Nicolas Idier since in addition to the Chinese language students, students from Première, Terminale and preparatory classes filled the stands.
« I come within the framework of the permanent missions of the general inspection of sports education and research underlines Nicolas Idier. ” I am keen to go to each of the 30 national education academies to meet the teachers in the field of Chinese teaching. Teachers who do an exceptional job every day to learn an exciting language ».
Nicolas Idier himself discovered the Chinese language during a school exchange. ” I was in first class at the Joffre public high school in Montpellier. A preparatory class teacher proposed an exchange with a school in Australia. However, Australia is part of the Asia Pacific, a region close to China, in any case which attaches great importance to learning the Chinese language. This is how, from the first class in Australia in a college not far from Melbourne, I was able to start taking the Chinese language. ».
Nicolas Idier has also returned from China, since he was part of the French delegation which accompanied President Emmanuel Macron during his official trip to this country from April 7 to 9 to strengthen ties with his counterpart, President Xi. Jinping. ” It was an important trip, the president’s first trip to China since 2019, before the COVID period. After Beijing, on April 7 we went to Canton, in southern China, to meet students from Sun Yat-sen University. On the spot the two presidents, in a joint declaration, officially acted to strengthen the educational and linguistic links ».