We are the UK's principal international organisation, connecting people worldwide with learning opportunities and creative ideas from the UK, and building lasting relationships between the UK and other countries.

Our purpose is to build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people worldwide. We work in 110 countries and every year we help to create some form of personal contact with the UK for 16 million people around the world.

Our 129 teaching centres, teach over one million classroom hours every year.  We also connect through visits, student exchange programmes, exams, library services and the many arts and cultural events.

Our work has a special focus on youth, connecting young people across all cultures has never been more important and we seek to create genuine mutual trust and understanding.

WHAT WE DO IN LIBYA

We support Libya’s social, economic, cultural and education development, providing a range of services and activities in Libya in the Arts, Society, Science, Education support and information and English language teaching and qualifications. We have British Council teachers located in 9 universities around Libya delivering English language classes and teacher development through a partnership with the General People’s Committee for Higher Education. We work with other local and international partners to deliver our programmes in education promotion, arts and English, and we work with local schools, women’s groups, business groups and youth groups to deliver activities in science and society.  Every year, The British Council in collaboration with the British Embassy, offer a number of prestigious Chevening scholarships for postgraduate studies in the UK.