The British Council is the United Kingdom’s principal agency for cultural relations with other countries. Our purpose is to enhance the reputation of the UK in the world as a valued partner. We promote the UK in its entirety, reflecting and celebrating its cultural, ethnic and political diversity.
We work with ordinary people as well as with governments and decision-makers in 110 countries, building relationships and creating opportunities. We target specific groups of people through programmes in education, English language teaching, libraries and information, the arts, science and technology, and governance and human rights. We take pride in the fact that these activities can often succeed in bringing people together where high-level diplomacy and politics cannot.
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.
Creating international opportunities and building trust
The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide.
We call this cultural relations.
Cultural, diplomatic and economic benefit for the UK
We create long-term relationships that provide cultural, diplomatic and economic benefit for the UK.
We provide access to the UK’s assets (language, arts, education and society), especially in big and emerging markets, as well as opportunities for millions of people to engage in global dialogue.
We are operationally independent from the UK government, which enables us to build trust on the ground in places and with people where relationships with our country, society and values are strained.
We place the UK at the heart of everything we do. We are working for the UK where it matters.
In Jordan we aim to be a close partner in Jordan's own development and reform programme emphasised in the Socio-Economic Transformation Plan, the Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy plan, the Jordan First campaign and the UNDP Human Development Report.
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