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id="toc-Schools" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Schools"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 Schools </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Schools-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Connecting_Classrooms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Connecting_Classrooms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3.1 Connecting Classrooms </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Connecting_Classrooms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Universities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Universities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4 Universities </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Universities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-RENKEI_network" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#RENKEI_network"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4.1 RENKEI network </div> </a> <ul id="toc-RENKEI_network-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arts_and_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arts_and_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5 Arts and culture </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arts_and_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-ACCELERATE" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#ACCELERATE"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5.1 ACCELERATE </div> </a> <ul id="toc-ACCELERATE-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-UK-India_Year_of_Culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#UK-India_Year_of_Culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5.2 UK-India Year of Culture </div> </a> <ul id="toc-UK-India_Year_of_Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-fiveFilms4freedom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#fiveFilms4freedom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5.3 fiveFilms4freedom </div> </a> <ul id="toc-fiveFilms4freedom-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Shakespeare_Lives" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Shakespeare_Lives"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5.4 Shakespeare Lives </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shakespeare_Lives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Selector_Radio" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Selector_Radio"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5.5 Selector Radio </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Selector_Radio-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cultural_and_educational_exchange_with_North_Korea" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cultural_and_educational_exchange_with_North_Korea"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.6 Cultural and educational exchange with North Korea </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cultural_and_educational_exchange_with_North_Korea-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_activities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_activities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Other activities </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Other_activities-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Other activities subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Other_activities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Young_Creative_Entrepreneur_Awards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Young_Creative_Entrepreneur_Awards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Young_Creative_Entrepreneur_Awards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Controversies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Controversies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Controversies </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Controversies-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Controversies subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Controversies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Expenses" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Expenses"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Expenses </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Expenses-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Closure_in_Russia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Closure_in_Russia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Closure in Russia </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Closure_in_Russia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Israel_and_Palestine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Israel_and_Palestine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Israel and Palestine </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Israel_and_Palestine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Closure_in_Syria" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Closure_in_Syria"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Closure in Syria </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Closure_in_Syria-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dissident_Chinese_writers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dissident_Chinese_writers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5 Dissident Chinese writers </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dissident_Chinese_writers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cuts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cuts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.6 Cuts </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cuts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Accountability" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Accountability"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.7 Accountability </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Accountability-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_literature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_literature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.8 In literature </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_literature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Burma" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Burma"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.9 Burma </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Burma-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Libya" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Libya"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.10 Libya </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Libya-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-English_and_examinations_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#English_and_examinations_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.11 English and examinations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-English_and_examinations_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Connecting_Classrooms_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Connecting_Classrooms_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.12 Connecting Classrooms </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Connecting_Classrooms_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chairs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chairs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Chairs </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chairs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Trade_unions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trade_unions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Trade unions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trade_unions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Publications" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Publications"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Publications </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Publications-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Publications subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Publications-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-History_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1 History </div> </a> <ul id="toc-History_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-British_Council_Partnership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#British_Council_Partnership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 British Council Partnership </div> </a> <ul id="toc-British_Council_Partnership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-List_of_British_Council-Approved_Centres" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_British_Council-Approved_Centres"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.3 List of British Council-Approved Centres </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_British_Council-Approved_Centres-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Annex" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Annex"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Annex </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Annex-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Annex subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Annex-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Locations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Locations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Locations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Locations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Americas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Americas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1.1 Americas </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Americas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-East_Asia-Pacific" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#East_Asia-Pacific"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1.2 East Asia-Pacific </div> </a> <ul id="toc-East_Asia-Pacific-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1.3 Europe </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-West_Asia_and_North_Africa" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#West_Asia_and_North_Africa"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1.4 West Asia and North Africa </div> </a> <ul id="toc-West_Asia_and_North_Africa-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-South_Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#South_Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1.5 South Asia </div> </a> <ul id="toc-South_Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sub-Saharan_Africa" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sub-Saharan_Africa"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1.6 Sub-Saharan Africa </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sub-Saharan_Africa-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div 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Council – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2" title="ব্রিটিশ কাউন্সিল – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ব্রিটিশ কাউন্সিল" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82" title="Британски съвет – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Британски съвет" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Cyngor_Prydeinig" title="Y Cyngor Prydeinig – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Y Cyngor Prydeinig" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briti_N%C3%B5ukogu" title="Briti Nõukogu – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Briti Nõukogu" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF" title="Βρετανικό Συμβούλιο – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βρετανικό Συμβούλιο" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="British Council" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="شورای فرهنگی بریتانیا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شورای فرهنگی بریتانیا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" 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90 years ago (1934)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data">British government</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_institution" title="Cultural institution">Cultural institution</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data">1 Redman Place, <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_London" title="Stratford, London">Stratford</a>, London E20 1JQ, England, United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served </div></th><td class="infobox-data">Worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Product</th><td class="infobox-data">British <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Culture of Britain">cultural</a> and language education</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Thompson_(arts_administrator)" title="Paul Thompson (arts administrator)">Paul Thompson</a> (chair) <a href="/wiki/Scott_McDonald_(CEO)" title="Scott McDonald (CEO)">Scott McDonald</a> (chief executive)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Revenue <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>(2020–21) </div></th><td class="infobox-data">£924,965,472<a href="#cite_note-charitycom-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Expenses <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(2020–21)</th><td class="infobox-data">£1,015,114,434<a href="#cite_note-charitycom-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/">www.britishcouncil.org</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Council_Delhi_Launch_of_Mix_The_City_Delhi,_6_April_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/British_Council_Delhi_Launch_of_Mix_The_City_Delhi%2C_6_April_2017.jpg/220px-British_Council_Delhi_Launch_of_Mix_The_City_Delhi%2C_6_April_2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/British_Council_Delhi_Launch_of_Mix_The_City_Delhi%2C_6_April_2017.jpg/330px-British_Council_Delhi_Launch_of_Mix_The_City_Delhi%2C_6_April_2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/British_Council_Delhi_Launch_of_Mix_The_City_Delhi%2C_6_April_2017.jpg/440px-British_Council_Delhi_Launch_of_Mix_The_City_Delhi%2C_6_April_2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>British Council Delhi launch of Mix The City Delhi, 6 April 2017</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Council_Hong_Kong_201212.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/British_Council_Hong_Kong_201212.jpg/220px-British_Council_Hong_Kong_201212.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/British_Council_Hong_Kong_201212.jpg/330px-British_Council_Hong_Kong_201212.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/British_Council_Hong_Kong_201212.jpg/440px-British_Council_Hong_Kong_201212.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>British Council building in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></figcaption></figure> The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English language</a> (and the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh language</a> in <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>); encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational cooperation with the United Kingdom. The organisation has been called a <a href="/wiki/Soft_power" title="Soft power">soft power</a> extension of UK foreign policy,<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> as well as a tool for <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> The British Council is governed by a <a href="/wiki/Royal_charter#United_Kingdom" title="Royal charter">Royal Charter</a>. It is also a <a href="/wiki/Government-owned_corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Government-owned corporation">public corporation</a> and an executive <a href="/wiki/Non-departmental_public_body" title="Non-departmental public body">non-departmental public body</a> (NDPB), sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Foreign,_Commonwealth_and_Development_Office" title="Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office</a>. Its headquarters are in <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_London" title="Stratford, London">Stratford</a>, London. Its chair is <a href="/wiki/Paul_Thompson_(administrator)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Thompson (administrator)">Paul Thompson</a> and its chief executive is Scott McDonald.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>1934: British Foreign Office officials created the "British Committee for Relations with Other Countries" to support English education abroad, promote British culture and fight the rise of fascism.<a href="#cite_note-History-7">[7]</a> The name quickly became the British Council for Relations with Other Countries.</li> <li>1936: The organisation's name was officially shortened to the British Council.<a href="#cite_note-Donaldson-1-8">[8]</a></li> <li>1938: The British Council opened its first four offices in <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a> (<a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>), <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>), <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a> (<a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>).<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-britishcouncil.pt-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> The offices in Portugal are currently the oldest in continuous operation in the world.<a href="#cite_note-britishcouncil.pt-11">[11]</a></li> <li>1940: King George VI granted the British Council a Royal Charter for promoting "a wider knowledge of [the United Kingdom] and the English language abroad and developing closer cultural relations between [the UK] and other countries".<a href="#cite_note-History-7">[7]</a></li> <li>1942: The British Council undertook a promotion of British culture overseas. The music section of the project was a recording of significant recent compositions by British composers: E.J. Moeran's Symphony in G minor was the first work to be recorded under this initiative,<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> followed by recordings of Walton's <a href="/wiki/Belshazzar%27s_Feast_(Walton)" title="Belshazzar's Feast (Walton)">Belshazzar's Feast</a>, Bliss' <a href="/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Bliss)" title="Piano Concerto (Bliss)">Piano Concerto</a>,<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Bax's <a href="/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Bax)" title="Symphony No. 3 (Bax)">Third Symphony</a>, and Elgar's <a href="/wiki/The_Dream_of_Gerontius" title="The Dream of Gerontius">The Dream of Gerontius</a>.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Council_(Madrid)_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/British_Council_%28Madrid%29_02.jpg/220px-British_Council_%28Madrid%29_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/British_Council_%28Madrid%29_02.jpg/330px-British_Council_%28Madrid%29_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/British_Council_%28Madrid%29_02.jpg/440px-British_Council_%28Madrid%29_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3896" data-file-height="2265" /></a><figcaption>British Council building in <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1944: In August, after the liberation of Paris, Austin Gill was sent by the British Council to reestablish the Paris office, which soon had tours by the Old Vic company, <a href="/wiki/Julian_Huxley" title="Julian Huxley">Julian Huxley</a> and <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a>.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></li> <li>1946: The British Council collected handicraft products from crafts that were being practised in the British countryside for an "Exhibition of Rural Handicrafts from Great Britain" that travelled to Australia and <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>. The majority of the collection was sold to the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_English_Rural_Life" title="Museum of English Rural Life">Museum of English Rural Life</a> in 1960 and 1961.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></li> <li>1948: The British Council sponsored a tour by the <a href="/wiki/Old_Vic_Theatre_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Vic Theatre Company">Old Vic Theatre Company</a> to Australia and New Zealand. The cast was led by <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vivien_Leigh" title="Vivien Leigh">Vivien Leigh</a>, performing a repertoire of three plays: <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_School_for_Scandal" title="The School for Scandal">The School for Scandal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Skin_of_Our_Teeth" title="The Skin of Our Teeth">Skin of Our Teeth</a>. In Australia, the company gave 179 performances and were seen by over 300,000 people. The tour made a profit of about £40,000.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></li> <li>1984: Kenneth Whitty, Deputy Director of the British Council in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>, was murdered by militants from the <a href="/wiki/Abu_Nidal_Organization" title="Abu Nidal Organization">Abu Nidal Organisation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></li> <li>2007: The Russian Foreign Ministry ordered the British Council to close its offices outside <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>. The Ministry alleged that it had violated Russian tax regulations,<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> a move that British officials claimed was retaliation over the British expulsion of Russian diplomats allegedly involved with the <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko" title="Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko">poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> This caused the British Council to cease carrying out all English-language examinations in Russia in January 2008.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> In early 2009, a Russian arbitration court ruled that the majority of the tax claims, valued at $6.6 million, were unjustified.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>2011: On 19 August, a group of armed men attacked the British Council office in <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>, the capital of <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, killing at least 12 people – none of them British – and temporarily took over the compound. All the attackers were killed in counter-attacks by forces guarding the compound.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> The British Council office was relocated to the British Embassy compound, as the British Council compound was destroyed in the suicide attack.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></li> <li>2013: The British Council in <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli, Libya</a> was targeted by a car bomb on the morning of 23 April. Diplomatic sources were reported as saying that "the bombers were foiled as they were preparing to park a rigged vehicle in front of the compound gate".<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> The attempted attack was simultaneous with the attack on the French Embassy in Tripoli on the same day that injured two French security guards, one severely, and wounded several residents in neighbouring houses.<a href="#cite_note-channel4.com-27">[27]</a> A jihadist group calling itself the <a href="/wiki/Mujahideen" title="Mujahideen">Mujahedeen Brigade</a> was suspected,<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> possibly linked to <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> in the Islamic <a href="/wiki/Maghreb" title="Maghreb">Maghreb</a>.<a href="#cite_note-channel4.com-27">[27]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation">Organisation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Organisation">edit</a>]</div> The British Council is a charity governed by <a href="/wiki/Royal_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Charter">Royal Charter</a>. It is also a <a href="/wiki/Government-owned_corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Government-owned corporation">public corporation</a> and an executive <a href="/wiki/Non-departmental_public_body" title="Non-departmental public body">nondepartmental public body</a> (NDPB), sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Foreign,_Commonwealth_and_Development_Office" title="Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office</a>. Its headquarters are in Stratford, London. Its chair is <a href="/wiki/Paul_Thompson_(administrator)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Thompson (administrator)">Paul Thompson</a>, and its CEO is <a href="/wiki/Scott_McDonald_(CEO)" title="Scott McDonald (CEO)">Scott McDonald</a>. The British Council's total income in 2014–2015 was £973 million principally made up of £154.9 million grant-in-aid received from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; £637 million income from fees and teaching and examinations services; and £164 million from contracts.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> The British Council works in more than 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the UK and the English language; encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational understanding and cooperation; changing people's lives through access to UK education, skills, qualifications, culture and society; and attracting people who matter to the future of the UK and engaging them with the UK's culture, educational opportunities and its diverse, modern, open society.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> In 2014–2015, the British Council spent: £489 million developing a wider knowledge of the English language; £238 million encouraging educational cooperation and promoting the advancement of education; £155 million building capacity for social change; £80 million encouraging cultural, scientific and technological cooperation; and £10 million on governance, tax and trading expenses.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_activities">Notable activities</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notable activities">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English_and_examinations">English and examinations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: English and examinations">edit</a>]</div> The British Council offers face-to-face teaching in more than 80 teaching centres in more than 50 countries.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> Three million candidates took UK examinations with the British Council in more than 850 towns and cities in 2014–2015.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IELTS_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/IELTS_logo.svg/220px-IELTS_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/IELTS_logo.svg/330px-IELTS_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/IELTS_logo.svg/440px-IELTS_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="778" data-file-height="293" /></a><figcaption>The British Council helps to run the global <a href="/wiki/IELTS" class="mw-redirect" title="IELTS">IELTS</a> English test</figcaption></figure> The British Council jointly runs the global <a href="/wiki/IELTS" class="mw-redirect" title="IELTS">IELTS</a> English-language <a href="/wiki/Standardised_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Standardised test">standardised test</a> with the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> <a href="/wiki/English_as_a_second_or_foreign_language" title="English as a second or foreign language">ESOL</a> Examinations and <a href="/wiki/IDP_Education" title="IDP Education">IDP Education</a> Australia. Over 2.5 million IELTS tests were delivered in 2014–2015.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Massive_Open_Online_Course_(MOOC)">Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)">edit</a>]</div> In 2014, the British Council launched its first MOOC, Exploring English: Language and Culture, on the UK social learning platform <a href="/wiki/FutureLearn" title="FutureLearn">FutureLearn</a>. This was accessed by over 230,000 people.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="English_for_peace">English for peace</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: English for peace">edit</a>]</div> "Peacekeeping English" is a collaboration between the British Council, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Defence</a> to improve the English-language skills of military personnel through the Peacekeeping English Project (PEP). PEP is helping train approximately 50,000 military and police service personnel in 28 countries, amongst them <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Britishcouncil.org-30">[30]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mobility_programmes">Mobility programmes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Mobility programmes">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Education_UK">Education UK</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Education UK">edit</a>]</div> In 2013, the British Council relaunched the global website Education UK for international students interested in UK education. The site receives 2.2 million visitors per year and includes a search tool for UK courses and scholarships, advice and articles about living and studying in the UK.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Erasmus+">Erasmus+</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Erasmus+">edit</a>]</div> From 2014 to 2020, the British Council and <a href="/wiki/Ecorys" title="Ecorys">Ecorys</a> UK jointly administered almost €1 billion of the €14.7 billion <a href="/wiki/Erasmus%2B" title="Erasmus+">Erasmus+</a> programme offering education, training, youth and sports opportunity for young people in the UK.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> It was expected that nearly 250,000 people will have undertaken activities abroad with the programme.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Schools">Schools</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Schools">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Connecting_Classrooms">Connecting Classrooms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Connecting Classrooms">edit</a>]</div> Over 16,000 schools have taken part in an international school partnership or benefited from teacher training through the British Council Connecting Classrooms programmes.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Universities">Universities</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Universities">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="RENKEI_network">RENKEI network</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: RENKEI network">edit</a>]</div> The RENKEI network, established in 2012, brings together universities from Japan and the UK. RENKEI stands for "Research and Education Network for Knowledge Economy Initiatives" in English and means "collaboration" in Japanese.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> As of May 2024,<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit">[update]</a> the members are the universities of <a href="/wiki/Durham_University" title="Durham University">Durham</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Leeds" title="University of Leeds">Leeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Liverpool" title="University of Liverpool">Liverpool</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_University" title="Newcastle University">Newcastle</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southampton" title="University of Southampton">Southampton</a> from the UK and <a href="/wiki/Keio_University" title="Keio University">Keio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyushu_University" title="Kyushu University">Kyushu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ritsumeikan_University" title="Ritsumeikan University">Ritsumeikan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tohoku_University" title="Tohoku University">Tohoku</a> universities from Japan.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arts_and_culture">Arts and culture</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Arts and culture">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="ACCELERATE">ACCELERATE</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: ACCELERATE">edit</a>]</div> ACCELERATE was a leadership programme for <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_and_Torres_Strait_Islander" class="mw-redirect" title="Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander">Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander</a> people in the <a href="/wiki/Creative_arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Creative arts">creative arts</a>, run jointly by the British Council and the <a href="/wiki/Australia_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Australia Council">Australia Council</a> in partnership with <a href="/wiki/Australian_states_and_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian states and territories">Australian state</a> arts agencies, between 2009 and 2016. During that time, 35 people participated in the programme, with many alumni going on to excel in their fields.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="UK-India_Year_of_Culture">UK-India Year of Culture</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: UK-India Year of Culture">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:UK-India_Year_of_Culture_official_launch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/UK-India_Year_of_Culture_official_launch.jpg/220px-UK-India_Year_of_Culture_official_launch.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/UK-India_Year_of_Culture_official_launch.jpg/330px-UK-India_Year_of_Culture_official_launch.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/UK-India_Year_of_Culture_official_launch.jpg/440px-UK-India_Year_of_Culture_official_launch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3510" data-file-height="2340" /></a><figcaption>UK-India Year of Culture official launch image on the façade of Buckingham Palace</figcaption></figure> Her Majesty <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> hosted the official launch of the UK-India Year of Culture on 27 February 2017 at <a href="/wiki/Buckingham_Palace" title="Buckingham Palace">Buckingham Palace</a>, with Indian Finance Minister <a href="/wiki/Arun_Jaitley" title="Arun Jaitley">Arun Jaitley</a> representing Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a>. The British Council worked with the Palace and British-Indian start-up Studio Carrom to project a <a href="/wiki/Peafowl" title="Peafowl">peacock</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>'s national bird, onto the facade of Buckingham Palace.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="fiveFilms4freedom">fiveFilms4freedom</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: fiveFilms4freedom">edit</a>]</div> In 2015, the British Council launched <a href="/wiki/FiveFilms4freedom" title="FiveFilms4freedom">fiveFilms4freedom</a>, a free, online, 10-day LGBT film festival with the <a href="/wiki/British_Film_Institute" title="British Film Institute">British Film Institute</a>, supported by the UN Free & Equal campaign. It was the first global online LGBT film festival.<a href="#cite_note-markbrown-39">[39]</a> The festival runs a 24-hour campaign to ask people to watch a movie and show that love is a human right. In 2016, films were viewed by over 1.5m people in 179 countries.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Shakespeare_Lives">Shakespeare Lives</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Shakespeare Lives">edit</a>]</div> In October 2015, the British Council announced a global programme with the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Film_Institute" title="British Film Institute">British Film Institute</a>, the <a href="/wiki/National_Theatre_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Theatre (UK)">National Theatre</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a>, the Shakespeare 400 consortium, the <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Birthplace_Trust" title="Shakespeare Birthplace Trust">Shakespeare Birthplace Trust</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a> to celebrate <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare's</a> life and work on the 400th anniversary of this death.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Selector_Radio">Selector Radio</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Selector Radio">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Selector_Radio" title="Selector Radio">Selector Radio</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> is a weekly two-hour radio show, produced by Folded Wing for the British Council. Originally launched in 2001, the show is now broadcast in more than 30 countries around the world, connecting a global audience to a wide range of music the United Kingdom has to offer, covering a variety of genres from <a href="/wiki/Grime_music" title="Grime music">grime</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indie_rock" title="Indie rock">indie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance</a> and more. The show features interviews, guest <a href="/wiki/DJ_mix" title="DJ mix">DJ mixes</a> and exclusive live sessions from some of the UK's most exciting artists. It avoids many mainstream acts, in favour of emerging talent and <a href="/wiki/Underground_music" title="Underground music">underground</a> styles. It has an estimated listenership of over four million people. The show is currently hosted in the UK by <a href="/wiki/Sian_Eleri" title="Sian Eleri">Sian Eleri</a> since 2024 - previous hosts include Jamz Supernova, <a href="/wiki/Goldierocks" title="Goldierocks">Goldierocks</a> and Andrea Oliver – and many countries take the English language version of the show and create a new show from the tracks and features, translating the 'links' into the local language. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cultural_and_educational_exchange_with_North_Korea">Cultural and educational exchange with North Korea</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Cultural and educational exchange with North Korea">edit</a>]</div> The British Council has been running a teacher training programme in <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> since 2001.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> In July 2014 the British Council signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for cultural and educational exchange. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_activities">Other activities</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Other activities">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Young_Creative_Entrepreneur_Awards">Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards">edit</a>]</div> The British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneurs Awards identify and support talented people from across the creative industries, such as the <a href="/wiki/International_Young_Publisher_of_the_Year" title="International Young Publisher of the Year">International Young Publisher of the Year</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Young_Design_Entrepreneur_of_the_Year" title="International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year">International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Young_Music_Entrepreneur_of_the_Year" title="International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year">International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year</a> and British Council West Africa Arts Programme ~ Creative Entrepreneurs 2018 awards.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Controversies">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Criticism_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-criticism" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criticism#Avoid_sections_and_articles_focusing_on_criticisms_or_controversies" title="Wikipedia:Criticism">"criticism" or "controversy" section</a> may compromise the article's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Article_structure" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutrality</a>. Please help rewrite or integrate negative information to other sections <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">through discussion</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:British_Council" title="Talk:British Council">talk page</a>. (August 2013)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expenses">Expenses</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Expenses">edit</a>]</div> In 2010, Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/Mark_Lancaster,_Baron_Lancaster_of_Kimbolton" title="Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton">Mark Lancaster</a>, the then <a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Treasury" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord of the Treasury">Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury</a>, the then <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker of the House of Commons</a> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Martin,_Baron_Martin_of_Springburn" title="Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn">Michael Martin</a>, and other MPs were involved in rows over expenses incurred on undisclosed taxpayer-funded British Council trips.<a href="#cite_note-Hastings-47">[47]</a> The British Council's then chief executive, Martin Davidson, also faced press criticism for expenses claimed in an apparent breach of the British Council's internal rules for overnight stays in London.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Closure_in_Russia">Closure in Russia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Closure in Russia">edit</a>]</div> In 2007, the Russian government accused the British Council of an illegal operation by breaking Russian tax laws and ordered the organisation to close two of its offices. Many believed that the council had become the victim of a diplomatic row between the UK and Russia.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> In 2018, Russia expelled 23 British diplomats and closed down the British Council (due to a lack of regulations on its activities) along with the general consulate in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> The move was reported to be retaliation against the UK's actions toward <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal" title="Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal">poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel_and_Palestine">Israel and Palestine</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Israel and Palestine">edit</a>]</div> The British Council has been a primary partner of the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Festival_of_Literature" title="Palestine Festival of Literature">Palestine Festival of Literature</a> since the Festival's beginning in 2008. In 2009, the Israeli police, acting on a court order, closed down the venue scheduled to host the Festival's closing event since there was <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Authority" title="Palestinian Authority">Palestinian Authority</a> involvement, but the British Council stepped in and the evening was relocated to its grounds.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> The British Council supports the festival, also known as PalFest. A controversial issue arose in 2012 because PalFest's website states that they endorse the "2004 Palestinian call for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel". Susanna Nicklin, the council's director of literature, said in response: "The British Council is a non-political organisation, and we believe that international cultural exchange makes a powerful contribution to a more peaceful, tolerant and prosperous world. Therefore, the British Council does not support cultural or academic boycotts."<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Closure_in_Syria">Closure in Syria</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Closure in Syria">edit</a>]</div> The British Council closed its operations in Syria in 2012 due to the ongoing conflict in the country. The closure was a result of the deteriorating security situation and the inability to ensure the safety of its staff and visitors.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dissident_Chinese_writers">Dissident Chinese writers</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Dissident Chinese writers">edit</a>]</div> In April 2012, the British Council faced a storm of protests over the <a href="/wiki/London_Book_Fair#Controversy" title="London Book Fair">exclusion of dissident Chinese writers from the London Book Fair 2012</a>. Critics included English PEN and journalist <a href="/wiki/Nick_Cohen" title="Nick Cohen">Nick Cohen</a> writing for <a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Niven" title="Alastair Niven">Alastair Niven</a>, a former Literature Director of the British Council itself.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuts">Cuts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Cuts">edit</a>]</div> In March 2007, the British Council announced its "intention to increase its investment in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">Southern Asia</a>".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] In June 2007, MPs were told of further closures in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a> (where there had been a British Council Library since 1946). The British Council libraries in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> were also scheduled to close. Similarly in India, the British Council Libraries at <a href="/wiki/Bhopal" title="Bhopal">Bhopal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thiruvananthapuram" title="Thiruvananthapuram">Thiruvananthapuram</a> were closed despite protests from library users as part of the Council's policy to "reduce its physical presence" in the country and to divert funds to mega projects in the fields of culture, education, science and research.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> British Council libraries and offices have also been closed in several other countries judged by the British Council to be of little strategic or commercial importance, as it refocused its activities on <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> area.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Council offices were closed in <a href="/wiki/Lesotho" title="Lesotho">Lesotho</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eswatini" title="Eswatini">Eswatini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a> and provincial <a href="/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">Länder</a> in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> in 2000–2001 – as well as <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> – prompting Parliamentary criticism. Subsequent promises by British Council Chair Neil Kinnock to a conference in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> that the Belarus closure would hopefully prove to be just a "temporary" withdrawal proved illusory. The British Council office in <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> also closed in September 2006 as part of a rethink of its strategy in <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, British Council closed its offices in <a href="/wiki/Turin" title="Turin">Turin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bologna" title="Bologna">Bologna</a> and reduced the size of offices in <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> (with the closure of the library in the latter).<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Arnold-Baker" title="Charles Arnold-Baker">Charles Arnold-Baker</a>, author of <a href="/wiki/Companion_to_British_History" title="Companion to British History">the Companion to British History</a> said of the British Council's shift in priorities: "This whole policy is misconstrued from top to bottom. We are going somewhere where we can't succeed and neglecting our friends in Europe who wish us well. The only people who are going to read our books in <a href="/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut">Beirut</a> or <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> are converts already."<a href="#cite_note-Smith-63">[63]</a> The article also points out that the <a href="/wiki/Alliance_fran%C3%A7aise" title="Alliance française">Alliance française</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Goethe-Institut" title="Goethe-Institut">Goethe-Institut</a>, unlike the British Council, are both expanding and replenishing libraries Europe-wide. France opened its new library in Tel Aviv in 2007, just a few months after the British Council closed there and shut down the British Council library in <a href="/wiki/West_Jerusalem" title="West Jerusalem">West Jerusalem</a>.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Institut_fran%C3%A7ais" class="mw-redirect" title="Institut français">Institut français</a> supports the Gaza municipal library in partnership with the local authority and a municipal twinning link between <a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza City</a> and the French port of <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a>.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>, British Council informs <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> callers that "our office is not open to the public and we do not have an enquiry service".<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> Goethe Institute also has a more visible presence in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> than the British Council.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> There is now, in contrast, only one British Council office left in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> – and that is in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Accountability">Accountability</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Accountability">edit</a>]</div> Formally it is to its sponsoring department, the <a href="/wiki/Foreign,_Commonwealth_and_Development_Office" title="Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office">Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office</a>, that the UK Parliamentary Table Office refers any parliamentary questions about the British Council.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> The effectiveness of British Council efforts to promote higher education in China was examined in the UK by the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> <a href="/wiki/Education_%26_Skills_Select_Committee" title="Education & Skills Select Committee">Select Committee on Education and Skills</a> in a report issued in August 2007.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> It expressed concern that in terms of joint educational programmes involving Chinese universities, the UK lagged <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">US</a>, Hong Kong, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>. In its evidence to this committee, the British Council argued that "UK degrees are highly valued by international students for their global recognition. International students adopt an essentially utilitarian view of higher education which is likely to increasingly involve consideration of value for money, including opting for programmes at least partly delivered offshore". As their preferred marketing "model", the British Council gave the example of India where their UK India Education and Research Initiative<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> is being "championed" by British multinational oil companies such as <a href="/wiki/BP" title="BP">BP</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shell_plc" title="Shell plc">Shell</a>, the pharmaceutical giant <a href="/wiki/GlaxoSmithKline" class="mw-redirect" title="GlaxoSmithKline">GSK</a> and arms company <a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems" title="BAE Systems">BAE Systems</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> Criticism of British Council marketing efforts in this area has also come from <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> where <a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sunday Herald">The Sunday Herald</a> obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the British Council's Marketing Co-ordinator in the US had been referring to <a href="/wiki/University_of_Stirling" title="University of Stirling">the University of Stirling</a> as "The University of Sterling" (sic) and also documenting "tensions" between Scottish Executive civil servants and British Council in India and China over overseas promotion of universities in Scotland where education is a devolved responsibility. The Sunday Herald reported that these turf wars were undermining the Scottish Executive's key Fresh Talent policy.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> Some of the activities of the British Council were examined in 2007/2008 by the <a href="/wiki/National_Audit_Office_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Audit Office (United Kingdom)">National Audit Office</a> (NAO). The NAO's report, The British Council: Achieving Impact, concluded: "that the British Council's performance is strong and valued by its customers and stakeholders".<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> It also concluded, however, that its English classes are elitist and have unfair advantages over commercial providers, as well as questioning thousands of unanswered phone calls and e-mails to British Council offices.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian.co.uk-76">[76]</a> As part of its examination of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Annual Report, the Foreign Affairs Committee spends an hour each year examining witnesses from the British Council but even this level of scrutiny is undermined by a Commons ruling exempting MPs from the requirement to declare overseas trips paid for by The British Council.<a href="#cite_note-Hastings-47">[47]</a> Two members of the Public Accounts Committee (<a href="/wiki/Nigel_Griffiths" title="Nigel Griffiths">Nigel Griffiths</a> MP and <a href="/wiki/Ian_Davidson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Ian Davidson (Scottish politician)">Ian Davidson MP</a>) were office-bearers in the British Council Associate Parliamentary Group.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> Nigel Griffiths MP was Vice-Chair of this British Council lobby group until stepping down as an MP.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 2008, the British Council was called before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) following the earlier publication of a National Audit Office report. The subsequent PAC report confirmed that Nigel Griffiths MP – Vice Chair of The British Council Associate Parliamentary Group – was part of the small number of PAC members who approved this report on the British Council despite not having been recorded as being present during the evidence session – in June 2008 – where the British Council's chief executive was cross-examined.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> Mr Griffiths had earlier travelled to Russia and spoke favourably of British Council activities there in January 1998 around the time that their man in St Petersburg (Stephen Kinnock) was expelled.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian.co.uk-76">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> In April 2008, the British Council was told to ensure all portable media was encrypted after losing staff data and wrongly saying the disc was encrypted.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> Following the accusations made against the British Council in Russia (see above) Trevor Royle, the diplomatic editor of The Sunday Herald quoted a "British diplomatic source" saying: "There is a widespread assumption that The British Council is a wing of our Secret Intelligence Services, however minor. Officially it is no such thing but there are connections. Why should it be otherwise because all information is invaluable? After all, the British Council also deals with trade missions and inevitably that involves low-grade intelligence-gathering."<a href="#cite_note-SundayHerald.com-84">[84]</a> In 2005, along with the <a href="/wiki/Alliance_fran%C3%A7aise" title="Alliance française">Alliance française</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri_Society" title="Dante Alighieri Society">Dante Alighieri Society</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Goethe-Institut" title="Goethe-Institut">Goethe-Institut</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Instituto_Cervantes" title="Instituto Cervantes">Instituto Cervantes</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Instituto_Cam%C3%B5es" title="Instituto Camões">Instituto Camões</a>, the British Council shared in the <a href="/wiki/Princess_of_Asturias_Awards" title="Princess of Asturias Awards">Princess of Asturias Award</a> for the outstanding achievements of Western Europe's national cultural agencies in communications and the humanities. At the time of this joint award, the full extent of The British Council's closure policies in Europe was not yet public knowledge. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_literature">In literature</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: In literature">edit</a>]</div> Royle also goes on to note that the novel <a href="/wiki/The_Russia_House" title="The Russia House">The Russia House</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_Le_Carr%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="John Le Carré">John Le Carré</a> (former consular official David Cornwell) opens with a reference to The British Council. The organisation's "first-ever audio fair for the teaching of the English language and the spread of British culture" is "grinding to its excruciating end" and one of its officials is packing away his stuff when he is approached by an attractive Russian woman to undertake clandestine delivery of a manuscript which she claims is a novel to an English publisher who she says is "her friend"!<a href="#cite_note-SundayHerald.com-84">[84]</a> It is also featured in one of the scenes in <a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Third_Man" title="The Third Man">The Third Man</a> – the character Crabbin, played by <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Hyde-White" title="Wilfrid Hyde-White">Wilfrid Hyde-White</a> in the film, worked for The British Council. In 1946, the writer <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> advised serious authors not to work for it as a day job arguing that "the effort [of writing] is too much to make if one has already squandered one's energies on semi-creative work such as teaching, broadcasting or composing propaganda for bodies such as the British Council".<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> In her autobiography, Dame <a href="/wiki/Stella_Rimington" title="Stella Rimington">Stella Rimington</a>, the first woman head of <a href="/wiki/MI5" title="MI5">MI5</a>, mentions working for British Council in India before joining the British Intelligence Services.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> The British Council was referred to (and its man on-station, Goole) – frequently in a humorous way by <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell" title="Lawrence Durrell">Lawrence Durrell</a> in his collection of anecdotes about a diplomat's life on foreign postings for the Foreign Office – Antrobus Complete.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> In the six <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Manning" title="Olivia Manning">Olivia Manning</a> novels that make up The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, Guy Pringle is an employee of the British Council, and Council politics make up several of the plot points. The books portray <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a> and the Middle East in the opening years of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War Two</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Burma">Burma</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Burma">edit</a>]</div> The role of the British Council in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> in 1947 came under scrutiny with the release of classified documents to a BBC investigation by journalist Feargal Keane into the role of dissident British colonial officials in the assassination of the then Burmese independence leader <a href="/wiki/Aung_San" title="Aung San">Aung San</a> (father of <a href="/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a>).<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> The BBC programme quoted from a 1948 document sent by the Chief of Police in Rangoon to the British Ambassador stating their belief that there had been British involvement in the assassination of Aung San and his Cabinet for which one of his political opponents was hanged and that "the go-between" had been a British Council official named in the programme. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Libya">Libya</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Libya">edit</a>]</div> In August 2011, a journalist from <a href="/wiki/The_Irish_Times" title="The Irish Times">The Irish Times</a> discovered a certificate dated 2007 issued by the British Council in <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a> to a daughter of President <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Gaddafi</a> who had previously been said to have been killed in a US raid on Gaddafi's residence in 1986.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English_and_examinations_2">English and examinations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: English and examinations">edit</a>]</div> In July 2011, the Hong Kong edition of <a href="/wiki/China_Daily_Hong_Kong_Edition" class="mw-redirect" title="China Daily Hong Kong Edition">China Daily</a> reported on the flourishing "ghost-writing" industry that critics suggest has sprung up around the British Council IELTS tests in China.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> A major IELTS corruption scandal in <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a> resulted in prosecutions in November 2011.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Connecting_Classrooms_2">Connecting Classrooms</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Connecting Classrooms">edit</a>]</div> In January 2012, the press in Pakistan reported that the Federal Investigations Agency was investigating a visa scam associated with the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chairs">Chairs</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Chairs">edit</a>]</div> The Council has been chaired by: <ul><li>1934–37 <a href="/wiki/William_Tyrrell,_1st_Baron_Tyrrell" title="William Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell">Lord Tyrrell</a><a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a></li> <li>1937–41 <a href="/wiki/George_Lloyd,_1st_Baron_Lloyd" title="George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd">Lord Lloyd</a></li> <li>1941–45 <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Robertson_(diplomat)" title="Malcolm Robertson (diplomat)">Sir Malcolm Robertson</a></li> <li>1946–55 <a href="/wiki/Sir_Ronald_Forbes_Adam,_2nd_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet">Sir Ronald Adam</a></li> <li>1955–59 <a href="/wiki/David_Kelly_(diplomat)" title="David Kelly (diplomat)">Sir David Kelly</a></li> <li>1959–67 <a href="/wiki/Edward_Bridges,_1st_Baron_Bridges" title="Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges">Lord Bridges</a></li> <li>1968–71 <a href="/wiki/John_Fulton,_Baron_Fulton" title="John Fulton, Baron Fulton">Lord Fulton</a></li> <li>1971–72 <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Rowan" title="Leslie Rowan">Sir Leslie Rowan</a></li> <li>1972–76 <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Fergusson,_Baron_Ballantrae" title="Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae">Lord Ballantrae</a></li> <li>1977–84 Sir <a href="/wiki/Charles_Troughton" title="Charles Troughton">Charles Troughton</a></li> <li>1985–92 <a href="/wiki/Sir_David_Orr" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir David Orr">Sir David Orr</a></li> <li>1992–98 <a href="/wiki/Martin_Jacomb" title="Martin Jacomb">Sir Martin Jacomb</a></li> <li>1998–2004 <a href="/wiki/Helena_Kennedy,_Baroness_Kennedy_of_The_Shaws" title="Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws">Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws</a><a href="#cite_note-Guardian1-95">[95]</a></li> <li>2004–09 <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Lord Kinnock</a><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a></li> <li>2010–16 Sir <a href="/wiki/Vernon_Ellis" title="Vernon Ellis">Vernon Ellis</a><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-97">[97]</a></li> <li>2016–19 Christopher Rodrigues<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-97">[97]</a></li> <li>2019–23 <a href="/wiki/Stevie_Spring" title="Stevie Spring">Stevie Spring</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-98">[98]</a></li> <li>2024–present <a href="/wiki/Paul_Thompson_(administrator)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Thompson (administrator)">Paul Thompson</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trade_unions">Trade unions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Trade unions">edit</a>]</div> Some staff at the British Council are members of unions.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> UK staff are represented by the <a href="/wiki/Public_and_Commercial_Services_Union" title="Public and Commercial Services Union">Public and Commercial Services Union</a>. Some employees in Japan belong to the <a href="/wiki/General_Union" title="General Union">General Union</a>.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Publications">edit</a>]</div> <div class="infobox-journal-search" style="display:none;"></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox hproduct"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%;">Media in Education and Development<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.jtitle=Media+in+Education+and+Development&rft.stitle=Media+Educ.+Dev.&rft.issn=0262-0251&rft_id=info:oclcnum/8210712&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Ftitle%2Fmedia-in-education-and-development-med%2Foclc%2F8210712"></caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">English</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;">Publication details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">1967–1989</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Periodical_literature#Frequency" title="Periodical literature">Frequency</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">Quarterly</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;">Standard abbreviations <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://marcinwrochna.github.io/abbrevIso/?search=Media_in_Education_and_Development">ISO 4</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/">alt</a>) · <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Bluebook_journals" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Bluebook journals">Bluebook</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://westerncriminology.org/publications/bluebook-abbreviations/">alt</a>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=0262-0251%5BISSN%5D">NLM</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=Media+in+Education+and+Development%5BJournal%5D">alt</a>) · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/msnhtml/serials.pdf">MathSciNet</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/search/journals.html?journalName=0262-0251&Submit=Search">alt</a> <img alt="Paid subscription required" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="9" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/14px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/18px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="597" data-file-height="947" />)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_4" title="ISO 4">ISO 4</a></th><td class="infobox-data identifier" style="text-align:left;">Media Educ. 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</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> no.</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8210712">8210712</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;">Links</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/media-in-education-and-development-med/oclc/8210712">Journal homepage</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> From 1967 to 1989, the British Council published the journal Media in Education and Development. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_2">History</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> Initially titled CETO news, ISSN 0574-9409, it became Educational Television International: a journal of the Centre for Educational Television Overseas, ISSN 0424-6128, in March 1967 (volume 1, issue 1).<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> The journal changed its name again, in March 1971, to Educational Broadcasting International: a journal of the Centre for Educational Development Overseas, ISSN 0013-1970 (volume 5, issue 1).<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> Its final name change was to Media in Education and Development, ISSN 0262-0251, in December 1981 (volume 14 issue 4).<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> The final issue went to print in 1989 (volume 22).<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_Council_Partnership">British Council Partnership</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: British Council Partnership">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/accreditation">English UK</a><a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_of_British_Council-Approved_Centres">List of British Council-Approved Centres</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: List of British Council-Approved Centres">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Study_Centres_School_of_English" title="British Study Centres School of English">British Study Centres</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Annex">Annex</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Annex">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Locations">Locations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Locations">edit</a>]</div> The British Council is organised into seven regions. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Americas">Americas</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Americas">edit</a>]</div> The British Council has offices in: <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /> <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Cuba.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cuba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" 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decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/35px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/46px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /> <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/45px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /> <a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 2x" data-file-width="69" data-file-height="39" /> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/23px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/35px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, 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data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /> <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/23px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/35px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/46px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="720" /> <a href="/wiki/Brunei" title="Brunei">Brunei</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="640" /> <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/45px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><img alt="" 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href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/15px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /> <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="West_Asia_and_North_Africa">West Asia and North Africa</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: West Asia and North Africa">edit</a>]</div> The British Council has offices in: <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/35px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/45px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bahrain" title="Bahrain"><img alt="Bahrain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Bahrain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Bahrain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Bahrain.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Bahrain" title="Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/45px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_Kuwait.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kuwait.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_Kuwait.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kuwait.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_Kuwait.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kuwait.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Flag_of_Lebanon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lebanon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Flag_of_Lebanon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lebanon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Flag_of_Lebanon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Lebanon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /> <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Oman.svg/23px-Flag_of_Oman.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Oman.svg/35px-Flag_of_Oman.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Oman.svg/46px-Flag_of_Oman.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/46px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestine</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_Qatar.svg/23px-Flag_of_Qatar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="9" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_Qatar.svg/35px-Flag_of_Qatar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_Qatar.svg/46px-Flag_of_Qatar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="550" /> <a href="/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="South_Asia">South Asia</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: South Asia">edit</a>]</div> The British Council has offices in: <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Nepal.svg/12px-Flag_of_Nepal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Nepal.svg/19px-Flag_of_Nepal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Nepal.svg/25px-Flag_of_Nepal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="726" data-file-height="885" /> <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sub-Saharan_Africa">Sub-Saharan Africa</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Council&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Sub-Saharan Africa">edit</a>]</div> The British Council has offices in: <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_Botswana.svg/23px-Flag_of_Botswana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" 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class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#addeff;"><div id="Prince_of_Asturias_Award_for_Communication_and_Humanities" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1981: <a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Zambrano" title="María Zambrano">María Zambrano</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Mario_Bunge" title="Mario Bunge">Mario Bunge</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/El_Pa%C3%ADs" title="El País">El País</a> newspaper</li> <li>1984: <a href="/wiki/Claudio_S%C3%A1nchez-Albornoz" title="Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz">Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ferrater_Mora" title="José Ferrater Mora">José Ferrater Mora</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/Grupo_Globo" title="Grupo Globo">Grupo Globo</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/El_Espectador" title="El Espectador">El Espectador</a> and <a href="/wiki/El_Tiempo_(Colombia)" title="El Tiempo (Colombia)">El Tiempo</a> newspapers</li> <li>1988: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Horacio_S%C3%A1enz_Guerrero&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horacio Sáenz Guerrero (page does not exist)">Horacio Sáenz Guerrero</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Pedro_La%C3%ADn_Entralgo" title="Pedro Laín Entralgo">Pedro Laín Entralgo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fondo_de_Cultura_Econ%C3%B3mica" title="Fondo de Cultura Económica">Fondo de Cultura Económica</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Central_American_University,_San_Salvador" title="Central American University, San Salvador">José Simeón Cañas Central American University</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Luis_Mar%C3%ADa_Anson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luis María Anson (page does not exist)">Luis María Anson</a></li> <li>1992: <a 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title="Goethe-Institut">Goethe-Institut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Instituto_Cervantes" title="Instituto Cervantes">Instituto Cervantes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Instituto_Cam%C3%B5es" title="Instituto Camões">Instituto Camões</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_Society" title="National Geographic Society">National Geographic Society</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" title="Nature (journal)">Nature</a> and <a href="/wiki/Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)">Science</a> journals</li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico" title="National Autonomous University of Mexico">National Autonomous University of Mexico</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/Alain_Touraine" title="Alain Touraine">Alain Touraine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman" title="Zygmunt Bauman">Zygmunt Bauman</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto" title="Shigeru Miyamoto">Shigeru Miyamoto</a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz" title="Annie Leibovitz">Annie Leibovitz</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Quino" title="Quino">Quino</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#addeff;"><div id="Princess_of_Asturias_Award_for_Communication_and_Humanities" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Emilio_Lled%C3%B3" title="Emilio Lledó">Emilio Lledó Íñigo</a></li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/James_Nachtwey" title="James Nachtwey">James Nachtwey</a></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Les_Luthiers" title="Les Luthiers">Les Luthiers</a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/wiki/Alma_Guillermoprieto" title="Alma Guillermoprieto">Alma Guillermoprieto</a></li> <li>2019: <a href="/wiki/Museo_del_Prado" title="Museo del Prado">Museo del Prado</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/Guadalajara_International_Book_Fair" title="Guadalajara International Book Fair">Guadalajara International Book Fair</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hay_Festival" title="Hay Festival">Hay Festival of Literature & Arts</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Steinem" title="Gloria Steinem">Gloria Steinem</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Adam_Michnik" title="Adam Michnik">Adam Michnik</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Nuccio_Ordine" title="Nuccio Ordine">Nuccio Ordine</a></li> <li>2024: <a href="/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi" title="Marjane Satrapi">Marjane Satrapi</a></li></ul> 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