Voices
Higher education institutions around the world share three big challenges. Can the UN's new development goals nudge universities towards solving them? The British Council's Nan Yeld answers.
What's it really like to be a smart, ambitious young woman in China? Lara Izzard-Hobbs, an intern at a Chinese law firm as part of a British Council programme, answers.
Children's language lessons today often look very different from the ones their parents remember having. The British Council's Gail Ellis looks at the approach teachers take in class today.
We spoke to two very different African entrepreneurs: Maisson Hassan of Fandora, and Mario Demetriou of DroneSnap.
What problems are common to English language departments at universities in developing countries, and how can they be tackled? The British Council's Ben Gray looks at the issues.
We asked Mahmoud Hassino, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter in Berlin, what it's like to be a gay refugee.
Bisi Alimi, a Nigerian activist who received death threats after he came out tells us about his experience growing up in his home country.
Do young people need to see gay characters on screen? Absolutely, says Irish film-maker Kate Dolan.
Lizzie Lynch, a former English language teaching assistant in Thailand, explains how learning her students' mother tongue compelled her to reassess her methods.
How can teachers encourage learners to correct their own writing? Second-time winner of TeachingEnglish blog award, Cristina Cabal, offers a few tried and tested error-correction activities.