SETIP was a five-year project jointly run by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (SMEdC), the Shanghai Teacher Training Centre (STTC) and the British Council Shanghai. It started in 2001 and finished in 2006.

The objective of the long-term project was to improve the quality of English language teaching in all primary and secondary schools in Shanghai and thus produce school leavers with a communicative competence in English. To achieve this, a unified in-service teacher development programme for Shanghai's English teachers was established.

So far, five groups of teacher trainers, totalling 200 in all, have spent eleven to twelve weeks in the UK at the College of St Mark & St John, University of Warwick and Bell International, receiving training in ELT Methodology and Teacher Training.

Since November 2002, the returned teacher trainers have started to design and deliver formal in-service teacher development courses for groups of teachers and subject supervisors. These experimental courses are reviewed by representatives from the three UK ELT training providers and training courses at three levels (primary, junior middle and senior middle) every year. The local in-service training courses have been cascaded throughout the city's 19 educational districts.

Here are links to an article about SETIP project written by Rose Woodford, a trainer in University of Warwick.

http://www.elted.net/issues/volume-10/index.htm [1]

Shanghai in the Spring Time: A Personal Reflection on the Shanghai English Language Teacher Improvement Project (SETIP) [2].