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Letter: Lenka Hudakova says the British Council kickstarted her lifelong pursuit of and passion for all things British

Branches aim to tap into huge domestic market in face of changing visa regimes and international competition

Billed as the “finance Cop”, the 29th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as Cop29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, was expected to provide the money to enable the transition away from fossil fuels announced at last year’s Cop28.

Letters: To mitigate the damage done by Brexit, any new deal would have to be deep and wide-ranging, says Dr Peter Holmes. Also letter from Scott McDonald

A lecturer doing his PhD on a British Council scholarship in York is frightened for his wife and two small children who are under Israeli bombardment

Other lives: British Council officer whose networking skills helped bring people together to spread British culture

The latest UN climate summit, COP28, was always going to be controversial. It was held in a state whose economy is heavily dependent on oil and gas – the United Arab Emirates. The summit president, Sultan Al Jaber, remains head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and recently declared…

Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are just three of the more than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries at the latest UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28. But they are among hundreds who will have travelled there by private jet. In fact, the UK prime minister, foreign secretary…

TN govt signs MoU with British Council for student mobility, capacity building, research & transnational edu. 7 TN univs partnering with 9 UK univs. CM's Naan Mudhalvan scheme discussed. 14 UK univs & 2 apex bodies to collaborate with 25 TN insts. VIT receives grant.