Teachers of English have a new global home on the web with the launch of TeachingEnglish. The website, launched at the IATEFL conference in Exeter on 8 April, brings together everything busy teachers need for the classroom and the staffroom.

Young people have an essential role to play in helping countries achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. In northern Ghana, Debate-to-Action, a joint British Council-World Bank Institute programme, is showing how they can make a difference.

One item of business for the environment ministers of the G8 at the Kobe summit will be a challenge presented by a coalition of concerned young individuals from 39 countries who met in London to agree an agenda for tackling climate change.