Du Songpeng, deputy director of the Beijing Education committee, speaks during the Olympic Educational forum in Beijing on November 24, 2007. [BOCOG]
A forum on the significance and methods of carrying out Olympic education was held in Beijing on November 24.
Officials from the United Nations Education Scientific and Education Organization, International Olympic Committee, London Olympic Games Organizing Committee, and local educational administrations participated the meeting co-hosted by Beijing municipal government and Humanistic Olympic Study Center(HOSC) the Renmin University of China.
Also present were the designer of the National Aquatics Center, John Bilmon of Australia and education experts from home and overseas.
Beijing, China’s capital and host of the 2008 Olympic Games, is playing a major role in promoting the Olympics among the 1.3 billion people living in China.
According to Du Songpeng, deputy director of the Beijing Education Committee, 200 primary and high schools in Beijing were named Olympic model schools. Classes on Olympic knowledge have been required at these schools every month.
After the forum, winners of an Olympics themed video and cartoon contest were awarded. The HOSC plans to organize three competitions of this sort before 2008; this was the sec
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