Voices
Katy Simpson Davies and Laura Patsko will run a British Council Seminar in Glasgow on 26 November 2013 on teaching pronunciation and listening in an ELF context (English as a lingua franca).
There are several factors affecting where students will choose study. The British Council’s Elizabeth Shepherd asks what other ‘Megatrends‘ there are and shares some important predictions.
Researchers Teresa Tinsley and Kathryn Board give us a summary of ‘Languages for the Future’, a report – published yesterday – on which languages the UK needs to learn now.
How do you cater for a country’s writers who have a pressing need to commit their stories to paper?
2014 is the UK-Russia Year of Culture, a great opportunity for the two countries to come together and find out about each other’s cultures outside the media.
In the latest Open Doors report about US student mobility, the UK is again the number one destination for US students. The British Council’s Tamsin Thomas reports on this year’s findings.
Lucinda Hawksley gives us an idea here of the language and images employed by British journalists, propagandists and artists during that time.
Dr Elizabeth Erling presents research on the relationship between English learning, skills development and economic gain in the region
Ceri Morgan of Ofsted, the UK's official body for inspecting schools and standards in education, explains some of the counterbalancing tensions in maths education.
The British Council’s John Bramwell describes how the booming South American economy faces complex challenges.