Dear IELTS candidates

British Council Albania in response to your needs will NO LONGER apply enrolment periods for IELTS registration, with effect from 21st April 2008.   
Each candidate who wishes to enrol for any of the fixed exam dates may come to register on any British Council working day provided you have ALL the required documents, but NO later than the closing enrolment date of the exam date you want to seat!!!
Please be advised that there are only 18 seats available for each module (Academic and General) and the first to come will be the first to be served. Candidates who wish to cancel their IELTS registration less than two weeks prior to chosen exam date will NOT be refunded.
Thank you for your understanding!   Please contact us if you have any questions about this.

“Unknown Origin”

In a world on the move as never before – flights and travel  – “Unknown Origin” explores moments of movement, arrivals and departures, and attempts to bring journeys to their end. Who is left behind by these travels? Who is expected? “Unknown Origin” is the latest stage in a process of collaboration between UK and Austrian artists exploring movement into, through and out of space as a matter of feeling – sensation, emotion and expression. The show itself tries to explore the migration and how the migrants face their identity issues.

“…I do not know the places where you sleep, but I dream of them…”
On 12th April 2008  “Unknown Origin” was produced at the National Theatre in Tirana.

The show was produced by Theatre ASOU and co-funded by Austrian Embassy in Tirana and British Council Albania.  For further information see   www.britishcouncil.org/albania-art-events-theatre

Cultural Heritage:   Oral History project:   “Albanian weddings in the 1940s”

Oral history describes the often hidden areas of human experience, such as everyday and family life, which make up the majority of people’s lives. Through individual memory, oral history recognises the diversity of human experience, especially when gathered together as a collection of life stories or themed testimonies. Following training last year by our partners from Southampton, UK, students of journalism and history at the History and Philology Faculty of the University of Tirana who are participants in our oral history project have  carried out interviews and learned about customs and rites for engagements and weddings since 1940 in Tropoja, Shkodra, Tirana, Durres, Permet, Korca, Erseka, Tepelena, Himara, and Peshkopi. Read some very interesting stories here.

The “ BEST (Building Entrepreneurial Skills for Tomorrow)”

The “ BEST (Building Entrepreneurial Skills for Tomorrow)” project idea was awarded first prize during the competition between 40 “Young Creative Entrepreneurs” after six days of training organised by British Council Albania in March 2007

BEST has succeeded in starting up and running its online –consultancy service in the business and financial area for young and existing creative entrepreneurs.

30 young women artisans from the Business Women’s  Association of Shkodra and Kruja and 35 fishermen from Shengjin in collaboration with local government bodies have now received training on “Small Business Management” from the BEST team.  

For more information please read here.

Education UK events this summer

This is your opportunity to learn more about the UK and maybe win a prize. Every month we will be asking you questions about different aspects of UK.

Which Beatles song holds the record for the most versions recorded by different artists?  Please send your answer to info@britishcouncil.org.al