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Misty Miller performing 'Next To You' for 'Amped', a video series brought to you by The Crypt Sessions and The Selector radio (British Council).
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23 July 2013 - 09:00

Misty Miller not 'just another girl with an acoustic guitar'

The Selector, our global weekly radio show for new UK music, has teamed up with The Crypt Sessions to bring you ‘Amped’, a monthly video series with UK artists.

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Music, Arts
A still from Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut, 'The Pleasure Garden' (image credit: BFI)
Date
08 July 2013 - 16:02

Hitchcock: why people are still talking about silent movies

In the biggest restoration project they have ever undertaken, the British Film Institute has restored nine of Alfred Hitchcock’s early silent movies.

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Film, Arts
Date
03 July 2013 - 11:29

Afghanistan: taking the Premier League into the community

Daud Rasool, Deputy Director British Council Afghanistan, walks us through a recent history and the transformational aspect of the Premier Skills programme on the lives of young Afghans.

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Football, Sport
'Teaching is more than child-minding students.' Photo (c) Alan Levine, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
03 June 2013 - 17:20

Will technology make teachers obsolete?

Advances in technology offer the potential to expand access to education, but will online learning ever replace the need for teachers?

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Universities and higher education, Schools
'Loud booms aren’t really unusual in Tripoli, but this one was very loud.' Photo (c) David Stanley, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
30 May 2013 - 11:55

Thousands more Libyan graduates to study in the UK

Amid security alerts, the British Council signed an agreement with Libyan officials which we hope will smooth the path of up to 5,000 Libyan scholars due to study in the UK each year.

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Universities and higher education
Entrance to Jeremy Deller's English Magic exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2013. Photo: Cristiano Corte
Date
29 May 2013 - 15:53

Venice Biennale 2013: Jeremy Deller's 'English Magic'

Emma Gifford-Mead offers an insight into Jeremy Deller’s exhibition ‘English Magic’.

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Visual Arts, Arts
Language assistant Myriam Tremblay exploring Bakewell, Derbyshire, during her year at a school in Manchester. (Image courtesy of the author)
Date
28 May 2013 - 17:13

Bring a foreign language assistant to your UK classroom

A British teacher and a Canadian language assistant explain how the British Council’s language assistant programme has benefited their classrooms and careers.

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Teaching, Schools
'The UK has a huge variety of distinct regional accents.' Photo (c)
Date
17 May 2013 - 11:30

UK accents: it's not what you say, it's how you say it

What do listeners hear when you speak in a particular accent?

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English language
Natalia Milán teaches English to children by video conference (Image credit: Camila García)
Date
09 May 2013 - 16:57

How I learned to teach English through a video screen

Natalia Milán describes what it’s like to teach English to a class from the other side of a video screen.

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Teaching resources, English language, Teaching
'Academic freedom, which to you seems natural, is for us a distant dream.' Photo (c) Frank Noon
Date
09 May 2013 - 16:23

Aung San Suu Kyi speech: support Burma's higher education

This is a transcript of Aung San Suu Kyi’s video speech on academic freedom. The video was presented at a British Council and University of London policy dialogue event on 9 May 2013

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Universities and higher education
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