Voices
Good intentions alone will not help us introduce languages such as Chinese and Arabic into the curriculum. If we want to thrive in a global society, we need to take firm action now.
The British Council’s Vicky Gough answers how UK schools can help their students pick up Mandarin Chinese.
The idea to create Mabboo, a sustainable bamboo clothing and accessories brand, came to Ed Cheney in February 2008, during his time as a British Council English language assistant in China.
We are recruiting people from the UK now to become English language assistants (ELAs) in China next academic year! There are plenty of reasons why you should apply.
Mariane Pearl's husband was beheaded by a militant Islamic fundamentalist group in February 2002. In November 2013, Mariane was interviewed by Mike Patterson of BBC. Read it here.
A year since UK teacher Stewart Cook started a partnership with a Lebanese school hosting 40 per cent refugees, he explains how the project has transformed his own pupils.
Researchers Teresa Tinsley and Kathryn Board give us a summary of ‘Languages for the Future’, a report – published yesterday – on which languages the UK needs to learn now.
Ceri Morgan of Ofsted, the UK's official body for inspecting schools and standards in education, explains some of the counterbalancing tensions in maths education.
If you are a student in the UK who’s planning to teach in Thailand in 2014 through the British Council’s Thailand English Teaching Project, read this advice by Charlotte Ogilvie.
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, English becomes the official language of instruction at a relatively early stage in a child’s education, often with confusing effects.