Liu Jing Programme Specialist, UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education, China

Liu Jing has been working as Programme Specialist in UNESCO INRULED since 2012, with the responsibility to lead the programme called ‘Quality Teacher for Rural Schools’. She is also a lecturer in Beijing Normal University. She has had over seven years of experience in research and practice of teacher education in China. She worked as an education consultant from 2007 to 2012 and provided technical assistance to a number of basic education projects in rural contexts supported by Department for International Development (DFID), UNICEF, Save the Children and Plan International. She has extensive experience in training material development, in-service training programme design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation. Also, she has experience in school development planning and inspection training with a focus on rural school improvement. She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Education and a PhD. in History of Education from Beijing Normal University.