The British Library in the UK in partnership with the British Council in Sri Lanka recently launched ‘A Return to Sri Lanka’, a travelling exhibition which showcased images covering nearly 300 years of Sri Lankan history from 1640 to 1900. About the exhibition European fascination with Sri Lanka was initially stimulated by its strategic position [Read More]
Opening with a parade of school bands, the inaugural Galle Children’s Festival was held on 22 and 23 October in the historic Galle Fort in southern Sri Lanka. The British Council partnered with the Galle Literary Festival and local charity Adopt Sri Lanka to deliver this event to children free of charge. Supported by the Ministry [Read More]
Over 2,000 children walk into the British Council Sri Lanka offices everyday. Marking their importance, the offices in Colombo and Kandy celebrated International Children’s Day in their own special ways. While the celebrations in Colombo were marked with a colourful drama performance by British Council young members and under-privileged children of the Defence Services Academy, [Read More]
Five bright, inspiring and determined Sri Lankan Global Changemakers arrived at the British Council Colombo one morning and confidently said “We have an idea…we want to break a Guinness World Record, and we want to do it on International Youth Day”. Sarah Jameel (20), Lihini Ratwatte (20), Sulakshana Senanayake (20), Mohomed Husni (22) and Sikander [Read More]
On 2 August 2011, the British Council in Colombo, the British High Commission in Sri Lanka, the Academy of Design, and UK Trade & Investment, held a joint event in Colombo at Westminster House, the residence of the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka. The event was attended by leading personalities of the fashion industry [Read More]
Sri Lankan mobile content specialist, zMessenger, and the British Council in Sri Lanka, recently initiated a strategic partnership to deliver ‘Learn English with the British Council’ – a personalised English language learning service, at the convenience of mobile phone users. ‘Learn English with the British Council’ is a simplified and interactive medium through which [Read More]
British Council Sri Lanka and Cambridge Education Foundation in collaboration with the University of Colombo, recently launched a ‘Diploma in Teacher Education for Global Learning’, the first of its kind in Sri Lanka. While the Global School Partnerships (GSP) programme provides teachers from Sri Lanka the opportunity to exchange teaching methodologies with teachers in the [Read More]
Recently, British Council Sri Lanka obtained recognition from our head office as the first large office in the global British Council network to reach full level 3 in the Environmental Framework Tool rating system, for monitoring of environmental behaviour, raising awareness among staff of measurement strategies, and calculating the office’s carbon footprint for a baseline [Read More]
IELTS results are graded on the unique IELTS 9-band scale, with each band corresponding to a specified competence in English. Overall Band Scores are reported to the nearest half band. 9 – Expert User 8 – Very Good User 7 – Good User 6 – Competent User 5 – Modest user 4 – Limited User [Read More]
So much so that over 1,500,000 people took the IELTS exam in the last 12 months worldwide, making it the world’s most popular English testing system. IELTS is the International English Language Testing System which tests English proficiency in over 500 counties, and is primarily used by those looking to pursue new opportunities abroad, be [Read More]
