What makes British education world-class? Why is the Chinese gaokao a source of stress for students? Vice President of the Chinese Society of Education, Zhu Yongxin and Professor Macfarlane of Cambridge University combine almost a century of teaching experience. In this dialogue, they discuss the methods and philosophies behind Chinese and British education.

Over the past twenty years, Professor Zhu Yongxin has undertaken extensive research on education across China. He has published more than 400 papers on education and over thirty books in China abroad. He is also the editor Eof "The Contemporary Japanese Education Series", "Education in the New Century lLbrary", "New ducation" and others. Furthermore, he has undertaken UNESCO commissioned research projects, as well as work funded by the National Natural Science Fund and the National Social Science fund. As a professor and PhD advisor in Suzhou University, Zhu is the initiator of the program, The New Education Experiment. He proposed new ideals in education in 2002 and in that program he draws a blueprint for a quality education system in contemporary China. By 2013, there were  more than 1500 experimental schools that participated in the New Education Experiment in 25 provinces, and over 1,500 000 teachers and students have taken part in the programme.