Voices
For European Day of Languages, colleagues from British Council offices across Europe collected 17 words and phrases that will make you sound (almost) like a local.
Performance poet Joe Hakim travelled to Trinidad and Tobago to work with Caribbean poets. We asked him about what he learned.
There are more than 230,000 species of marine life in our ocean. So how do they communicate? We asked FameLab finalist and marine chemical ecologist Dr Mahasweta Saha.
We asked Dr Nicola Galloway, co-author of a recent report into English as a medium of instruction (EMI), about her research into the growing trend to teach university courses in English.
We asked 2,000 young people in the UK about their career prospects, interest in political and social action, and the UK's place in the world, as part of the Next Generation UK research.
Sally Rooney released her first novel this year and is one of a group of new authors reshaping Irish writing. We asked her about her book and her contemporaries.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 are with us, but there's little change. The British Council's John Bramwell explains.
How can teachers identify and build on their strengths, and make time for professional development? We asked Amy Lightfoot and Deepali Dharmaraj.
Christine De Luca is a poet who writes in Shetlandic, which is spoken in the Shetland Isles off the north coast of Scotland. We asked her about the dialect.
!['[Games] can form the integral core of a well-staged lesson.' Image (c) Michal Parzuchowski, used under licence and adapted from the original.](https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/styles/bc-landscape-100x56/public/jenga_1920x1080.jpg?itok=h2kEvmU8)
Mike Astbury, four-time winner of our TeachingEnglish blog award, explains how classroom games can benefit your students, lessons and professional development.