Our team in #Ethiopia were delighted to host author and broadcaster lemn sissay OBE FRSL at a series of events in Addis Ababa, including a screening of the documentary 'The Memory of Me', a storytelling session for young people, and a book fair and signing event, where he presented his

Our schools team British Council Schools published an new report about creating more inclusive schools. It includes articles and case studies from across the world, plus insights from policymakers in India, Lebanon, Pakistan and South Africa. It's available here: britishcouncil.org/research-insig…

Bumped into the legendary Stevie Spring (my old boss) at the Chelsea Flower Show early this morning.

The International Disability Art Festival, the culmination of our long-standing work in disability arts in Bangladesh, recently took place at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. It was the first-ever International Disability Art Festival in South Asia and more than 6,000

󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Every year, for more than a century, the young people of Wales have sent a message of peace and goodwill to the world. I'm pleased to share their 2024 Peace Message.
#Heddwch2024

Our team in Pakistan British Council Pakistan is working to build scalable and sustainable transnational education programmes to help students access the best quality education.
Hear from the team, Riphah International University in Islamabad and Noor, one of their students, in the video 👇

Great day in Belfast celebrating the British Council’s 90th anniversary and 77 years operating in Northern Ireland, with our Board of Trustees, The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Ministers, MLAs, officials and partners from across the educational and cultural sectors.

We had an inspiring presentation this week from our cross-disciplinary team at the British Council leading ground-breaking work on how we will use AI in our work in teaching, learning and assessment. Great progress and congratulations to all. The possibilities are exciting.

Happy Birthday NCLE! The British Council, IOE - UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and the Goethe Institut have been working together for a year to raise the profile of language learning in state-maintained primary and secondary schools in England. Find out more here:

🌟 We’re very pleased to announce that His Majesty King Charles III is our new Patron.

Previously, His Majesty served as our Vice Patron from 1984 until his Accession.

Our team in France @frbritish are doing a great job delivering our UK/France Spotlight on Culture 2024, Together We Imagine programme. We made this video to mark the opening of the Friends in Love and War exhibition, currently Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon until July, moving to Ikon in

Meet Heba El Zein, our Head of Creative Economy in #Egypt - she's all about innovation, culture, education and policy in the creative sector. With a track record of successful projects in Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt and a passion for empowering young minds, we're lucky to have her on

Pakistan is one of our most exciting operations. Our new Chair Dr Paul Thompson and Deputy Chief Executive Kate Kate Ewart-Biggs recently visited #Pakistan to see the opportunities we create for young people across the country.
jameshampson @pkbritish

The Foreign Secretary delivered an excellent speech on policy this morning. I was delighted with the strong focus on the importance of the English language and the British Council.

Representatives from Swansea Local Authority School Cluster, including teachers and headteachers, visited New York to learn about the Community Schools Approach with Harlem Children’s Zone. This was a Welsh Government funded International Professional Learning Opportunity, part

Great to hear the enthusiasm of these young people who participated in AI for the Common Good, part of our Stronger Together programme in #Europe . The programme included hackathons in Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland & the UK. The top teams joined a study visit in #Bristol .

A new report from our team in Poland British Council analyses the challenges faced by the Polish education system following the influx of Ukrainian children and teenagers after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
britishcouncil.pl/en/programmes/…
#Poland #Ukraine

Hanging out with the amazing UK Ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom in Koya-san where we went to visit a British Council supported school.

Lovely discussion this evening with the Governor of Wakayama and his wife Kaori Iida, the team from Wakayama Prefecture, UK Ambassador Julia Longbottom and British Council head of Japan Matt Knowles. We talked about all things Japan and UK.