Hello! My name is Rina. I am 21 years old. I am from Japan and study English and International relations at Teikyo University in Japan. The university is located in Nakano and has nice facilities. It has a beautiful café where I usually eat delicious food with my friends. Back home in Japan, I like…
Month: February 2018
Languages are our business
We are launching a new campaign to promote language learning.. Posters will follow our video below and schools and organisations are encouraged to use our new logo for the campaign. We are delighted to have worked with UBISOFT, the games producer to create a short film to demonstrate the application of language skills in the…
Happy Chinese New Year
Colleagues at the British Council have produced a splendid new teaching resource to introduce The Year of the Dog to primary school age pupils. The resource can be downloaded free of charge from here https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/classroom-resources/list/year-dog-primary-teaching-resource
112 day
Yesterday, on the 11 February, Europe celebrated the European 112 Day which was established in 2009 to raise awareness of the European emergency number. In an emergency situation, when you are in the need of help, you can call 112 which is the European emergency number. You can call it whenever you are in the…
The UK and European Customs Union
A customs union is a trade agreement between two or more countries. This means that countries which are a part of the union decide not to impose taxes on imports coming from other member countries and agree to impose external costs on goods that are coming from countries which are not a part of the…
Pontanima concert
Pontanima leaflet final Join the Pontanima choir from Sarajevo for their concert in Durham Cathedral. Music will include new commissions and works of significance for different religions and cultures. Over the twenty years of its existence, Pontanima (spiritual bridge) has emerged as one of the most important actors in the field of inter-religious peacemaking in…
Women’s suffrage
Today it is exactly 100 years ago since women in Great Britain got their right to vote in elections. Below you can also see when women in some of the European countries got their right to vote. Although women were allowed to vote they had to meet certain requirements to be able to vote in…
What are residency rights of EU nationals in the UK?
The Prime Minister suggested that during a transition period, arriving EU nationals would not have the same residency rights as those currently in the UK. The UK Government has set out its current position as shown below : Further detail can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/status-of-eu-nationals-in-the-uk-what-you-need-to-know
International Durham 