This unusual project involved the creation of a new course for Romanian schools, in English, which supported the Romanian National Curriculum for Personal Education and Career Guidance. It also embraced aspects of the UK’s National Curriculum for Citizenship Education.

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The British Council Romania EWoW project was set up in 2003 with endorsement from Romania’s Ministry of Education and National Centre for Vocational Education and Training, and consultancy from the University College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK.

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The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of Uzbekistan identified the improvement of in-service teacher training in higher and secondary specialised/vocational education as a policy priority and invited the British Council to be a key partner in reforming the national INSET system.

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The British Council-managed project was launched to ensure that Ukraine's ELT community understands the change in the learning and teaching paradigms advocated in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

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The transformational project has delivered an English Language Curriculum of a new generation: level specific, competence based, and job related.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey contracted the British Council Ankara to deliver English communication skills training for a group of 42 graduate diplomats, to enable them to conduct diplomatic business effectively in English when representing the Republic of Turkey on missions overseas.

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In this major project the British Council responded to priorities expressed by the Saudi Arabian government in relation to the preparation of young Saudis for the workplace and for study.

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The aim of this highly successful project was to upgrade the teaching and learning of English for Specific Purposes in higher education institutions which provide personnel to sectors important to Romania's economic development.

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The Romanian government recognised that, to facilitate the country's efforts towards European integration, the English language skills of groups such as government officials and students in key areas needed to be upgraded.

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This very successful project came into being when the Mexican Ministry of Education asked the British Council for help in developing the self-access centres (SACs) which existed in each of Mexico's 34 state universities. Some 500,000 students were using the centres.

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