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British Council Ireland
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Education Programmes
If you are a teacher wanting to bring an international perspective into your class or school, we can help through our range of school partnership programmes. If you are a student interested in language assistant opportunities, read on. At present in Ireland we run the following:
East-West Schools Programme
A new initiative to strengthen school partnerships and to encourage friendship and understanding between young people in Ireland and Great Britain.  Find out more ...
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 Connecting Classrooms
Connecting Classrooms helps groups of UK schools partner with schools in other countries around the world. We hope to include Ireland is this programme soon. Find out more ...
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Mock Council of the European Union
The Senate Chamber, Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast will be the home of the EU on Friday 16 October 2009 when students from schools across Ireland and Northern Ireland meet to tackle the big issues of the day during a mock meeting of the Council of the European Union. The event, now in its fifth year, has been once again organised by the British Council in partnership with the European Commission Office in Northern Ireland.  Deadline for applications is 1 April 2009.  Find out more ..
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 Irish Language Assistants
Can you speak Irish? Would you like to spend a year promoting and supporting the learning of Irish in a school in Northern Ireland?  Find out more ...
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Useful Links
We've gathered all our learning links together for easy access - browse the list and follow up your options now, or go to our main British Council Learning Page for full details of all our education opportunities.
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