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- Date
- 18 April 2016 - 11:24
Why language teachers in England's schools feel frustrated
Kathryn Board and Teresa Tinsley, authors of the 2016 Language Trends survey, break down its findings.
- Tags
- Schools, Education, Educational research
Voices
Voices
- Date
- 12 April 2016 - 15:45
Why did a young female Russian novelist pretend to be a man?
Award-winning young Russian writer Alisa Ganieva published her first long story under a secret male pen name. She told us why.
- Tags
- Literature, Arts
- Date
- 12 April 2016 - 08:15
What can Shakespeare teach us about freedom?
Professor Ewan Fernie of the Shakespeare Institute explains how Shakespeare can help us understand who we are and what we might become.
- Tags
- Shakespeare, Arts, Theatre, Literature
- Date
- 08 April 2016 - 12:34
Can UN development goals fix higher education's problems?
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.
- Tags
- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 07 April 2016 - 06:40
Can apps really help children learn languages?
How can parents be sure children's educational apps work? Tracy Dumais, a mobile learning consultant and young learner specialist for the British Council, answers.
- Tags
- Teaching, English language
- Date
- 06 April 2016 - 11:49
How have performances of Shakespeare changed over time?
Shakespeare's plays have inspired a variety of interpretations over the centuries. Shehrazade Zafar-Arif, who's completing her MA in Shakespeare Studies at King’s College London, explains.
- Tags
- Shakespeare
- Date
- 05 April 2016 - 09:32
Why China can be an exciting place for women
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.
- Tags
- Work outside the UK, Study outside the UK
- Date
- 01 April 2016 - 13:17
How to experiment with new ideas in the classroom
Mike Astbury, second-time winner of the British Council's TeachingEnglish blog award, shares some advice for trying out new activities in the classroom.
- Tags
- Teaching, English language
- Date
- 30 March 2016 - 10:01
How UK schools benefit from modern language assistants
Jackie Rayment, a modern foreign language adviser at Herts for learning, looks at some of the ways modern language assistants can benefit UK schools and their pupils.
- Tags
- Schools
- Date
- 29 March 2016 - 09:29
Why is my child doing these activities in language class?
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.
- Tags
- Teaching, English language