The purpose of the British Council is to create international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and to build trust between them worldwide. We call this cultural relations. The British Council is the United Kingdom’s organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We share the UK’s assets in English, education and the arts with the people of other countries and help people from the UK and other countries to understand each other better, thereby helping to secure our collective prosperity and security.
In terms of our reach and our impact we are the world’s leading cultural relations organisation. Cultural relations is a component of international relations which focuses on developing people-to-people links and complements government-to-people and government-to-government contact.
The areas in which we work represent the great cultural asserts of the UK that attract people and partners overseas and enable us to build stronger cultural relations for the UK.
These are English, Arts and Education and Society. We work towards four high level outcomes:
-more widespread and better quality teaching and learning of English worldwide
-new ways of connecting with and seeing each other through the arts
-enhanced UK leadership of and learning from international education
-stronger global citizenship among people in the UK and worldwide
The British Council is also a member of EUNIC Brussels (European Union National Institutes for Culture)
Find out more about the British Council worldwide
We have developed our Integrated Equality Scheme to help us promote equality and eliminate discrimination in the areas of gender, race and disability. Find out how we are applying this scheme worldwide.
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