BA, MA, PGCE
Voicu holds degrees and certifications across 3 disciplines. He received a BA in Philology and History from his home country in Romania. He holds a MA in English Language and Literature from Assumption University (Thailand) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in Literacy and Learning from the University of Southern Queensland (Australia). He specialized in Positive Psychology at the Positive Psychology Center from University of Pennsylvania (USA) and holds a PCSE in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience from King’s College London (UK).
Voicu has been a teacher all his adult life. He started teaching straight out of Teacher’s College and has been teaching internationally since 2002. Before moving to China in 2018, he taught in Thailand and Qatar. His teaching career followed his qualifications path. He taught English and American Literature for many years but then he switched to his second major and started teaching History. He especially enjoyed teaching Asian History. As Voicu also had a background in educational psychology, in 2015 he decided to refocus his teaching interest on psychology and has taught the AP, GCSE and IB curricula in the international schools system ever since.
As a former competitive archer who has participated in many international archery competitions (including the Archery World Cup in Shanghai and the Indoor Archery World Cup in Singapore), he is highly interested how mindset influences peak performance in sports. One of his other interests is survival psychology and calisthenics. During his free time, he is engaged in an auto-ethnographic project by studying Chinese calligraphy, ink wash painting, and playing the guqin.
