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My excitement first started when my colleague, Tuncay Şakir, nominated me for the ‘Teacher+Competition’ organized by British Council and INGED (İngilizce Eğitimi Derneği), the only national teachers’ association in Turkey. This competition aimed to find the Turkish English language teacher of the year and attracted entrants from across the country. The night when the winner was announced was one of
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As the British Council English team, we’ve always enjoyed sharing new global products and materials produced in the UK with learners and teachers of English but personally I find it more inspiring to see these materials localised and really owned by the users. Word on the Street is a TV program co-produced by BBC and British Council and broadcast
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The British Council English Language Team (ELT) in Turkey, ran our first ever web conference on 9 and 10 February, called, “Story Sharing Web Conference”. 642 teachers from all over the world participated in our programme of real-time webinars over the two days. Web conferencing is a solution to bring people together from multiple locations to share information and learn from
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Teachers, trainers, administrators from a variety of schools and universities gathered in this comfortable venue to celebrate the three finalists in the British Council’s Teacher+ Competition. This was a search that started last autumn for a teacher who goes beyond their regular teaching duties to really benefit their school, students, colleagues or the wider community in some way. Each of
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What does it take to develop English skills at universities to help drive knowledge and innovation based economies? British Council brought together more than 90 delegates from 50 universities in 15 countries at Universities Forum in Istanbul in search of an answer. “The speed in transformation of society and technology effects the learning and teaching of English” Michael Bird, British Council
The British Council is the UK’s international cultural organisation. Read about the work we’re doing building relationships between the UK and Turkey through our work in Arts, English, Education and Society.
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