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.
In an effort to improve the national tourist industry, the Venezuelan Tourism Ministry decided to award certification to personnel who meet its established standards of service.
This project focuses on the assessment of learning outcomes in English in Ukrainian schools, in support of the Ministry of Education and the Independent Testing Centre's project which aims to bring Ukraine in line with European standards.
During the first phase of this project, as a result of a joint initiative of the St Petersburg City Department of Education and the British Council, a new model of school leaving exam for English was established in St Petersburg.
The British Council, in partnership with the Mozambique Ministry of Education and the University of London, managed a major 5-year British Government-funded project to improve the quality of English Language teaching in Mozambican schools.
The Bureau for Development of Education (Ministry of Education) in Macedonia expressed a need for professional development of teachers in the area of teaching and assessing writing skills as part of a major reform of the examinations system in the Macedonian secondary schools.
This project started with a group of 10 lecturers from the English Department of the Philological Faculty, Ss Cyril & Methodius University, as a result of their expressed need for professional development in the area of teaching and assessing academic writing.
The government of Ecuador wished to make the teaching and learning of English in its schools more effective, and asked the British Council to help it implement a major new project: Curriculum Reform and Development for the Learning of English (CRADLE).
