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'Saints are willing to go to their death for their convictions.' Still from British Council video Michael Landy: Saints Alive, Mexico City 2014
Date
03 February 2015 - 11:09

Why Michael Landy animated the saints to destroy themselves

British artist Michael Landy explains the inspiration behind his Saints Alive exhibition, which recently moved from London to Mexico City.

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Arts, Visual Arts
'My most valuable asset in setting a pilot book group in motion was local knowledge.' Photo (c) vincen-t licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
30 January 2015 - 11:38

What to look out for if you want to run a book group

Setting up and running a book group is a different experience in every country. Miriam Vaswani, who organised a book group at the British Council in Tunis, explains how she did it.

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English language, Teaching resources, Teaching, Arts, Literature
'Set things up in advance so the lesson isn’t taken up fixing the microphone, focusing the projector, and so on.' Photo (c) Watchcaddy licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
29 January 2015 - 12:51

Tips for teaching groups of learners on Skype

Do teachers need to be in the room to successfully deliver a course to groups of learners? Not according to Nathan Lomax, who is training Libyan teachers from the UK using Skype.

Tags
Teaching, English language
'Iran has among the highest rates of female enrolment in university in the world.' Photo (c) Beshef, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
28 January 2015 - 08:02

Things you probably didn’t know about Iran

Danny Whitehead runs through some of the more unexpected facts about Iran, in time for today's book publication of Didgah – New Perspectives on UK-Iran Cultural Relations.

Tags
Cultural relations
'Currently, the Indian higher education system is the second largest in the world.'
Date
22 January 2015 - 12:42

What India's reforms hold for UK universities

The Indian government's rapid devolution of power to the Indian states is part of the country's higher education reform. The British Council's Manjula Rao looks at the implications

Tags
Universities and higher education
Syrian artists are looking to find an answer to the question of what happens next. Photo: Mohamad Khayata, Stitching My Syria Back, 2014
Date
21 January 2015 - 08:03

What are Syrian artists showing us about the conflict?

Lois Stonock co-curated an exhibition by Syrian artists who are showing us the conflict in new ways. Read a transcript of her exhibition tour.

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Arts, Visual Arts, Global development
'Around 40 per cent of 15- to 24-year-olds in Tunisia are unable to find employment.' Photo (c) Gwenael Piaser, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
19 January 2015 - 02:36

Can digital learning improve education in the Maghreb?

Four years on from the Arab Spring, what challenges face North Africa's youth and how can technology transform its education systems? The British Council's Chris Neil looks at the issues.

Tags
Skills, Universities and higher education
'Findings consistently show that learners benefit from using their home language in education in early grade years.'
Date
16 January 2015 - 13:25

Why schools should teach young learners in home language

Many believe their children will get a head start in education by going straight for English and bypassing the home language. Not so, according to Professor Kioko.

Tags
English language
'Learners on this course become part of the lesson content when they share their thoughts and opinions.'
Date
16 January 2015 - 08:27

Why learn English as part of an online community?

Chris Cavey, lead educator for our massive open online course on FutureLearn, Exploring English: language and culture, explains what learners can gain from exchanging ideas online.

Tags
English language
There's a common perception in secondary schools that languages are a ‘female subject’. Photo by Mat Wright for the British Council
Date
08 January 2015 - 17:19

Do boys need male teachers to learn a language?

What effect can employing male language assistants have on schools and their pupils? The British Council’s Charlotte Ogilvie finds out.

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Schools
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