Voices
We're continuing to count down our series on the 80 moments that shaped the world over the past 80 years. Today we turn to number 26, the invention and widespread use of email.
Alex Rawlings, who won a competition to find Britain's most multi-lingual student in 2011, explains why learning foreign languages is so rewarding.
World-renowned environmental conservationist Dr Jane Goodall shares her views on the future of our planet and how we should think about animals.
Vivian Futran Fuhrman, PhD candidate at Ben Gurion University, explains why desertification is a threat to us all ahead of the 'Drylands, Deserts and Desertification' conference.
Business success in the creative sector need not be elusive. Three alumni of our Young Creative Entrepreneur programme share their tips.
Best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak spoke to the British Council's Ted Hodgkinson about how her global perspective has influenced her hugely successful fiction.
What can songs teach us about a language? Richard Stokes, Professor of Lieder at the UK’s Royal Academy of Music, tells us about teaching the wonder of language through music.
As we release our latest app for primary learners of English (ages 6 - 11), mobile learning consultant and young learner specialist Tracy Dumais provides advice for parents and teachers.
In the second of our series on the 80 moments that shaped the world in the last 80 years, we turn to number 47: Wikipedia.
How do Japanese students really feel about studying abroad? The British Council's Anna Esaki-Smith looks at some of the findings of a report called Japan: Debunking the 'inward-looking' myth