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The British Council's New York team dressed up as Banksy in front of one of his New York pieces

Date: 31 October 2013 - 10:49

UK street artist Banksy makes the news in New York

The British Council's JJ El-Far explains UK street artist Banksy's transatlantic appeal.

Tags: Arts, Visual Arts

Learning to present your arguments in a public debate is a useful life skill. Photo (c) Carla de Souza Campos, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 29 October 2013 - 09:57

How to become good at debating

Sheanna Patelmaster, 17, explains why learning to win arguments is a useful life skill.

Tags: Schools, Secondary school

'It was the trip of a lifetime.' Photo (c) Marco, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 28 October 2013 - 09:57

How a technical work and study exchange can change your life

Professor Igor Aleksander writes about how a stint in Milan changed the course of his career.

Tags: Education

'Louisville is a charming, cosmopolitan, mid-sized American city full of culture and friendly, hospitable, people.' Photo (c) Monique Wingard, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 25 October 2013 - 09:47

How Northern Irish students can study in the US

The Study USA programme gives scholarships to Northern Irish students to study business at US universities for a year. Páraic Rafferty writes about spending a year at Bellarmine University.

Tags: Universities and higher education, Study outside the UK

Pakistan Monument in Islamabad, home to two of the top 120 universities in 2013's QS University Rankings. Photo (c) Jibran Bin Dawood, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 24 October 2013 - 10:15

It makes sense for Pakistani and UK universities to partner

As Pakistani universities face many of the same issues as those of their UK counterparts, institutional partnerships between the UK and Pakistan will help both countries achieve their goals.

Tags: Universities and higher education

Soldiers in the South Sudanese army learn English with the British Council (image credit: Joe MacDonald)

Date: 15 October 2013 - 16:31

How to teach English to a former rebel army

Claire Duly explains what it’s like to transform former rebels into a modern standing army.

Tags: English language, Teaching

'China is the world’s largest education market, with more than 400 million students.' Photo (c) Tauno Tõhk, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 15 October 2013 - 11:28

Digital education in China

Jeremy Chan, regional head of research and consultancy, explains what the Chinese digital education landscape looks like, and the opportunities and risks for foreign investors.

Tags: Universities and higher education

Using a torch to solder a pendant on the hearth at the Turquoise Mountain institute

Date: 14 October 2013 - 17:10

Rebuilding Afghanistan's creative industries

The British Council’s Daud Rasool explains how Afghanistan’s traditional creative industries are being rebuilt after years of war.

Tags: Arts, Creative Economy

A nanoscale-level coating of zinc oxide on top of a copper plate. Photo (c) Oregon State University, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 11 October 2013 - 15:56

Why does nanotechnology divide public opinion?

Nanotechnology is said to improve several aspects of our lives, e.g., the shelf-life of food, but its minute scale challenges the imagination and raises public concerns.

Tags: Technology, Science

'We may end up sounding like robots if we don't stress our words in the right places.' Photo (c) John Greenaway, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 09 October 2013 - 16:01

Why teaching word stress in spoken English is important

One very important element to being understood in English is stressing the right words in a sentence.

Tags: English language, Teaching

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