British Council Croatia

30/10/2026

You already did the hard part. One score wasn’t quite where you needed it to be, and the idea of resitting the entire test probably feels overwhelming.

With One Skill Retake, you don’t have to worry.

Retake just the one skill that needs improving within 60 days of your original test.

Same format, same standard – just the part you need.

Book your IELTS test with the British Council to check your eligibility.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/1yv15101V9z

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29/10/2026

British Council Ireland are pleased to announce 11 successful partnerships awarded the UKIRL Culture Connects Grant 2026/27, a British Council Ireland grant delivered in association with Arts Council Ireland/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

The selected proposals engage 22 artists and creative practitioners working across Ireland
and the four nations of the UK.

Working across a range of artforms, including visual arts, performing arts, participatory arts,
film, literature, music, circus and outdoor spectacle and with themes including climate crisis
and ecology, technology, place-making, justice, language, race, gender and rurality.

The programme supports artistic collaboration and relationship building between Ireland and the four nations of the UK, connecting artists and creative practitioners to develop ideas, research and projects.

Focussed on emerging artists, and with an emphasis on partnership-building, this grant
encourages meaningful connection and creative exchange across borders.

We are excited to watch these partnerships develop across the next six months.

For more information, please visit www.britishcouncil.ie

29/10/2026

📍 Next stop: Antalya.

We’re heading to COY21 (5–7 November) and COP31 (9–20 November) in Türkiye, with teachers, artists, researchers and young people from around the world.

Our programme is built around three ideas, Learn, Create and Connect, with events, activities and opportunities to get involved in each.

A few highlights:

📚 Learn: 25 UK schools are working with 25 schools in Türkiye, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, alongside the University of Exeter and the Met Office.

🎨 Create: we’re launching a bilingual anthology of new climate stories at COP31, inspired by Türkiye’s café culture.

🤝 Connect: we’re supporting 263 young climate negotiators from 79 countries, and helping some of them get to COP31.

Swipe through to see more, then follow the people and ideas taking it forward over the coming weeks. 🔍

29/10/2026

What does it mean to belong?

Through painting, sound and architectural intervention, Lubaina Himid’s Predicting History: Testing Translation invites us to think about the spaces we move through every day and the stories they hold.

The figures within her work are not simply observed – they are active participants, negotiating the spaces they occupy.

Find out more about the installation: https://ow.ly/nZaJ5101URA

British Pavilion Artist 2026: Lubaina Himid
Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator: Ese Onojeruo
Soundscape created in collaboration with Magda Stawarska

📹: Zachary Hyland
Visual identity: TEMPLO

28/10/2026

Join a free webinar on inclusive education with experts from the European Commission, the European Centre for Modern Languages, Eurydice and Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.

Our panel for ‘Language-responsive education in the European context’ will include:

• Anna Solé Mena, Senior Expert on Multilingualism, European Commission
• Sarah Breslin, Executive Director, European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML)
• Akvile Motiejunaite-Schulmeister, Education Policy and Systems Analyst, Eurydice
• Nathalie Auger, Professor of Language Sciences, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Bringing perspectives from European policy, language education and research, they’ll join British Council colleagues to explore how education systems can respond to learners’ diverse language needs.

The discussion will connect plurilingual education with inclusive classroom practice, support for displaced learners and teacher professional development. You’ll also have the opportunity to put your questions to the panel.

📅 3 November 2026 | 14.00–15.30 CET
💻 Online | In English

👉 Register to join the discussion: https://ow.ly/y1Vt5101B8u

28/10/2026

Climate action starts with people. 🌱

Climate is a priority in our 2030 Strategy, and for us it’s about real people doing real work. Through The Climate Connection programme, over the past two years we have:

📚 trained more than 3,000 teachers to bring climate into their classrooms
🎨 mobilised over £11 million for cultural heritage
🤝 supported more than 43,000 young people, with over 26,000 now leading action in their own communities

We hold ourselves to the same standard. We’ve cut our own carbon emissions by 63% since 2017 baseline, almost double our 33% target.

Next month we take this work to COY21 (Conference of Youth) and COP31 (Conference of the Parties) in Antalya, Türkiye, with partners in Türkiye, Australia, the Pacific and around the world. Watch the video to see the story so far and read our full programme by the link 👉 https://ow.ly/6cRa5101BN3

28/10/2026

Let’s make your stories more exciting! 📖✨

Learn how the past simple and past continuous can work together to improve your storytelling.

What were you doing when something unexpected happened to you?

Find more grammar explanations and activities on our website: https://ow.ly/J7gT5101eCY

26/10/2026

Time to get ready for spooky season! 🎃

Learn some Halloween favourites with us.

25/10/2026

"Only English, please." It's a phrase most English teachers have used. But does it actually reflect what immersion really means?

In her Voices Magazine article, teacher and trainer Huma Hasna Riaz Ahmed unpacks a common assumption in language teaching: that immersion means English-only. Drawing on research into bilingual education and her own classroom experience, she makes the case for a more flexible, "plurilingual" approach, one where English remains central, but learners' own languages are used as a resource rather than a roadblock.

Are we immersing learners in English, or isolating them from the very languages that could help immersion work? Read the full article to find out.

Is 'English-only' really the same as immersion? Huma Hasna Riaz Ahmed reflects on how a widely accepted practice in ELT may be oversimplifying a more complex reality.

24/10/2026

Which sentence is correct? Tell us in the comments.

A. Time to go to the bed.
B. Time to go to bed.

Do you struggle with articles? Swipe through this Quick Grammar guide to learn when you need ‘the’ and when you don’t.

Find more grammar explanations and activities on our website: https://ow.ly/VIQF50ZZYtj