Connecting the UK to the world and the world to the UK, the British Council is Britain's international cultural relations body.
We believe that creating opportunities for people to understand each other better, work together more and learn from one another is crucial to building secure, more prosperous and sustainable futures for us all.
Our activities - whether in the arts, science, sport, English teaching, climate change or education - nurture greater trust and understanding between different countries and cultures. They also build strong international links to and from Britain, opening doors for the UK onto the rest of the world and for the world back to the UK.
The UK and Australia share a rich ancestry. We also share common interests as two modern nations committed to openness, tolerance, innovation, prosperity and security in a global market for skills and ideas and a sometimes fractious world community where distrust is often rooted in misunderstandings about cultural differences.
Australia, as part of East Asia, is vital to the UK’s economy with an aggregate gross domestic product double that of India and China combined. Our programmes address some of the diverse challenges of the region; from supporting positive social change; through to building networks of young Asian and Australian leaders responding to climate change and significantly growing the number of school links with the UK.
Our main focus is to increase the quality and number of links between the creative and knowledge economies of East Asia and the UK. Our priorities here are internationalising higher education and improving technical and vocational education, supporting the development of creative cities and increasing cultural relations through the arts, and working with eight countries across the region to improve the quality and quantity of English language teaching.
In Australia our focus is on creating lasting links between emerging leaders in both our nations and supporting innovative collaborations across the arts and creative industries, science and climate change.
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- We were established in Australia in 1947
- Our main office is in Sydney and we have a Deputy Director based in Melbourne
- The Country Director is Nick Marchand
- We have 6 local staff
- We manage the Chevening Awards Programme on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
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