Last summer hoilday, several SCIE students attended the Fitzwilliam Summer Programme at the University of Cambridge, with three of them receiving awards for outstanding essays. Their essays will be published on the Fitzwilliam College website. This article is Albert and Nico’s retrospective and sharing of their experience on the programme. “Did you know? Human can […]
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NESSIC held its Inaugural Photography Competition “Share Your World” with the results being announced November 22nd at the NESSIC Convention. Designed to encourage student creativity 11 schools participated, generating 928 submissions, engaging 517 students across 3 grade groups. Hosted by SCIE, the event was coordinated by Mr. Timothy Percevecz from SCIE. Step inside this
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At 9:30am, the campus was exceptionally clear and bright after the typhoon. Sunshine filtered through the branches and leaves, casting dappled shadows on the ground. On such a refreshing autumn morning—September 25th—Shenzhen College of International Education (SCIE) welcomed a group of guests from the Southern Hemisphere: a visiting delegation consisting of 21 students from Australia’s
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iGEM stands for the International Genetically Engineered Machine. It is the largest and most prestigious synthetic biology competition in the world. Founded by MIT, iGEM combines biology, engineering, entrepreneurship, etc., fostering teamwork, communication and passion. At the 2025 iGEM Finals, which concluded just two weeks ago, the SCIE iGEM team: GreatBay-SCIE won the highest awards—the Grand
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Last week, Shenzhen College of International Education seemed a little “greener” than usual. Led by the Student Leadership Body’s Global Citizenship Division, reused newspapers, plastic bottles, and cans demonstrated new value across our campus. Part 1 The Budding Idea: When Business Meets Social Responsibility This exhibition, jointly planned by the InvestNow club and the Global Citizenship
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The dazzling disc catches the eye, and the words “SCIE GOT TALENT” on the poster are particularly striking. This year’s theme is both unique and mysterious—”Infinity.” It holds a charm that invites limitless imagination and is filled with a novel atmosphere. As one of the major annual events at SCIE, this is the perfect opportunity
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We can’t quite remember the exact day it happened, the moment we stopped flipping through our textbooks and notes. Perhaps it was when we realized that Britain itself had become our greatest textbook: vivid, three-dimensional, and alive. In the autumn of 2025, twenty-four SCIE students, along with our economics teachers Ms. Allen, Ms. Shiwei and
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Pleasant news arrives with the autumn breeze. In the recently released June 2025 Cambridge International examination results, students at SCIE have once again demonstrated exceptional academic prowess, achieving brilliant success in the Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards. Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards are a group of awards issued by Cambridge International Education, that recognize exceptional achievement in Cambridge exams
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Action in the world stems from independent individuals. Independent individuals can connect with each other through action, forging change in society. From personal goals and ideas to engagement and understanding within the community, everything begins with that phrase—global citizen. I am truly honored to represent SCIE in receiving this award for 2025, and I hope to
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At the beginning the 2024-25 school year, I decided that SCIEs Art Department should have a field trip to New York City. To expose our talented students to one of the worlds premiere center for the arts. Ten months later twelve students, Clara, my colleague from the art department and myself landed in New York
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My essay is on the recent development of China’s mental health care system and how it can help address this question. Though, I actually parried the question raised by the prompt, and I did not in the end emphasise too much that more care should be devoted to the socially vulnerable. Rather, I intended to underscore the complexity and ambiguity in any employment of these two notions — “socially vulnerable” and “responsibility” — in the concrete working of society. Through my study I discovered that the train of legislative efforts made in the 1980s to 2000s to legally recognise, to enhance public knowledge of, and to erect new asylums for, “the mentally ill,” in fact coincided spatiotemporally with government efforts in putting new agendas of foreign policies and city development to work. Thus, the recent development of China’s mental health care, from scratch to full maturity, is not solely the consequence of “humanitarian effort,” but also of some other ulterior motives. In my conclusion, I hinted that any answer to this question would entail empirical investigation into the concrete working of social institutions, and depending on the nature of this “socially vulnerable” group, claims of “responsibility” may be leveraged as veils for other purposes.
Before starting my research I did not by then have a well-formed hypothesis, but I did have Michel Foucault’s intriguing study on madness in mind. Due to the rather peculiar nature of the object of my study, I was not able to apply the sociological theories (Marxism, Functionalism, e.g.) I learnt in class to my own research. I must thank my sociology teacher for his encouragement and provision of many textbook resources and classical studies done in the field of mental health care. In addition to that, he prepared a statement of the school for my application to conduct short interviews at a local mental health hospital — this application, however, though quite expectedly, sank into oblivion — without his help this project would be very difficult.
I made a documentary “The Definition” about the situation of elderly in Shenzhen to enter this competition. As I have some previous knowledge in filmmaking, learning from TBU studio, I though it would be meaningful if I combined my filmmaking skills with sociology knowledge. In the meanwhile, after learning the very first chapter of sociology, The Family, I found out that the situation of elderly in the UK is different from that of elderly in Shenzhen. For instance, elderly have the responsibility taking care of their grandchildren and dance in the park for entertainment is distinctive in China. Therefore, I decided to make a documentary to record the interesting culture.
I learnt a lot during the preparation for the competition. I learned a lot about how to carry out an individual primary research when I was filming “The Definition”, which helps a lot in my current sociology study. Also, I understood sociology theories better. For instance, postmodernism used to be only a vague theoretical perspective for me, yet it amazed me knowing that elderly people participate actively in public activities can be considered as view of postmodernism.
Most importantly, I realized filmmaking can make some impacts on people, portraying problems of society. Experience of BSA opened my eyes and led me rethink about my future major in college. I want use my skills and knowledge to help more people, so I will probably try a major with humanity and filmmaking combined instead of pursuing the dream of being an artist alone.
Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, “The Definition” eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it’s not so perfect. I’ll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video：https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
