Voices
Luke Spencer spent nine months in Mexico as part of our Language Assistants Programme. He recounts his experience of VOLTA Abismal, a cross-cultural ecological music festival.
Are the terms ‘native speaker’ and ‘non-native speaker’ appropriate, practical and useful to describe language identity, use and understanding?
What connects a dinosaur, UNESCO and the British Council’s Cultural Heritage Fund? Dr. Maximilian Chami of the University of Dar es Salaam and the National Museum of Tanzania explains all.
Ruth Owen Lewis of Gower College and Dr Caroline Chipperfield from Petroc College, share how integrating internationalism into strategy and curriculum has transformed their colleges.
Scott McDonald, Chief Executive of the British Council talks about the situation in Sudan and its effect on the British Council's work in the country.
English is one of the world's favourite languages, but will it be in the future? Mina Patel talks about how English, its teaching, assessment and use in business might change.
Dr Sian de Bell, Research Fellow, University of Exeter and Julius Cesar Alejandre, Doctoral Researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University explain how nature prescribing can help keep us well.
What are the challenges of making queer films in countries with repressive regimes? Film student Josh Bullin shares his learnings from creating a queer film season as part of his studies.
We asked British Council teacher, Elsa O'Brien, to share what she has learned while teaching a new online English class for visually impaired students.
'Everyone speaks English' - is that what most British people think? Vicky Gough looks at the results of the British Council’s recent UK survey and finds a desire to learn.