The British Council in partnership with the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education, the Ministry of Public Education, The Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation and the Uzbekistan Teachers’ of English Association is organising English Week in Uzbekistan.

Objectives of the Week:
•To respond to the almost unlimited demand for English coming from all sectors of the economy
•To develop and strengthen partnerships
•To facilitate dialogue in the area of education reform including in English teaching and learning
•To disseminate achievements of partnership projects in the areas of education and English•To promote the new generation of English learning and teaching materials

A number of events will take place within the Week:

• November 30-December 1- UzTEA annual conference. Theme: ‘Enhancing the Standards of Teaching, Learning and Assessment of English’
• December 5 - Round Table. Theme: ‘Innovations in ICT use and implementation of international standards in education (English language)’
• December 6 - Learner Conference. Theme: ‘’Creative English Language Learning’’
• December 10 - English Reform meeting of Heads of English Departments of all 18 pre-service teacher training institutions and curriculum reform co-ordinators.
• December 12-15 - Workshop on ‘Information and Communication Technologies for English language teachers’.

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In April 2012 22 academic leaders from Uzbekistan including university prorectors, deans, heads of departments and seniour lecturers attended intensive knowledge sharing and training programme at London Metropolitan University in the UK. The visit is part of innovative TEMPUS project named ''The Enhancement of Quality Assurance Systems Through Professional Development of Academic Leaders'' that brings together the concortium of 3 European universities from the UK, Greece, Lethuania, 5 uzbek universities - University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Samarqand Foreign Languages Institute, Samarqand Institute of Commerce , Bukhara State University and Karshi State University, the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of Uzbekistan and the British Council Uzbekistan.

The project builds on the previous work in the area of quality assurance in higher education and provides development opportunities for academic staff invloved in curriculum reform through exchange of knowledge and ideas and, by doing this, will contribute to innovation in teaching and learning nationwide.

For more information pls contact Jamilya Gulyamova

On April 23-27, British Council together with the project teams of its key partnering institutions have committed to doing variety of green acts ranging from individual and family walks instead of using transport to/from work/study places to planting trees and cycling.

This activity involved around 95 people across the facebook social network, these were the activists of Kelajak Lingvo, Culture Week groups, PSG, ETTE, Teacher and Students, Youth Employment Centre, All about books and Neo Consulting groups as well as people from Italy, Pakistan and USA, and ninety per cent of the British Council Uzbekistan staff. It is interesting to underline that majority of the active participants were people aged 25+ . Another interesting discovery was that BC Uzbekistan staff likes walking a lot.

Small “green” presents celebrated the Green Week and highlighted British Council Uzbekistan everyday green work. For more information on BC Green Policy, please contact Emine Sheykhametova