currently includes schools in Wales, China, the United States of America, New Zealand, Mauritius, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. In 2006 the trust established the world's first school-based Confucius Institute, in partnership with the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) the Confucius Institute now has a network of 34 Confucius Classrooms in schools, specialising in the teaching of Mandarin Chinese. This work was sold to the Department for Education in 2011. In November 2010 the trust signed an agreement with Hanban to train 1,000 teachers of Chinese. The trust also manages a number of schools in Abu Dhabi. References External links Department for Education Education in England Education in the London Borough of Islington Organisations based in the London Borough of Islington