Confucius Institute at the University of Melbourne

The Confucius Institute at the University of Melbourne was launched as a partnership with Nanjing University and is the third Confucius Institute established in Australia, notable for being only the second worldwide (among roughly 160 at the time) to offer corporate programs. It delivers general and industry-tailored business Chinese courses (face-to-face or via Zoom) for companies and organisations - past corporate clients have included Telstra, BlackRock and Langham Hotel - alongside academic Chinese language and cultural short courses (calligraphy, tai chi, guzheng, painting) open to the public, and support for Chinese-language teaching in Victorian schools. As with other Confucius Institutes, it is a Chinese-government-linked cultural body, a fact that has drawn public and parliamentary scrutiny in Australia and elsewhere; prospective students may want to weigh that context alongside the course offering.