Artist Jeremy Deller will represent Britain at next year's Venice Biennale, the British Council has announced.
PalFest is supported by organizations including the UK Arts Council and the British Council.
Then, in 1956, Roland Penrose was appointed to work for the British Council in Paris.
He will be replacing the outgoing head of the British Council, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws.
In Afghanistan the Taliban killed 12 people when they stormed the British Council compound in Kabul.
This was backed up by the Conservative Party and the British Council, which promotes the country's interests abroad.
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Alexander Zaslavsky is connected to the British Council, which promotes U.K. business interests.
So far, the British Council has shipped 25 tons of books and journals donated by 20 UK organisations or individuals.
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And there are forecasts from the British Council that the number of overseas students coming to the UK could triple.
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Gormley's work is among a raft of art projects put forward by the British Council's latest venture, Art For A Dangerous World.
This week the British Council said it aimed to bring the Swansea poet's work to international audiences over the next two years.
The British Council in Egypt called the Cairo Conservatoire, who suggested Marcellino Safwat, a 17-year-old cellist with ambitions to become a conductor.
The British Council's director of higher education, Pat Killingley, said the inclusion of the additional foreign students was good news for UK higher education.
The Olympics, Paralympics and Diamond Jubilee have improved how the UK is viewed by other countries, a survey for the British Council has found.
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But is the British Council right to redouble its re-branding efforts?
Members from the British Council of Wales and the European Commission Office in Wales also attended the committee to discuss Welsh participation in EU funding programmes.
Two staffers at the British government-funded cultural and educational organization in Iran had passports taken away, and many others were told to quit, the British Council said.
Mr Scudamore added that the Premier League runs a skills and coaching initiative in India, in conjunction with the British Council, to further Indian interest in the sport.
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The British Council said it had removed links from its website to the site until it was able to discuss why these comments were allowed to be published.
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He said security was not an issue during the trip and that he would speak to the British Council about revisiting Iraq with pupils from King Edward VI.
It would be possible to make some quite reasonable points from the Russian side: is the media reaction to the Kremlin's treatment of the British Council selective or disproportionate?
The British Council has commissioned leading artists to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale since 1938, with the aim of celebrating the best of emerging and established British art.
Sponsored by the British Council in a growing number of countries, including Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria, the Fame Lab was originally launched at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the United Kingdom in 2005.
The British Council has yet to apply the nationality data to the choice of courses, but even under the old domicile measure full-time postgraduate overseas students outnumbered the UK students in three fifths of subject areas.
The project, as part of a scheme by the British council to promote British arts around the world, aims to highlight the need for cultural and artistic ties between the West and the rest of the world.
The EFRA Committee (at 3pm) continues its look at the pros and cons of vaccinating badgers and cattle against bovine TB with witnesses from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, the British Veterinary Council and the British Cattle Veterinary Council.
Zimbabwe's pavilion is the result of a joint drive by the country's culture ministry, the National Gallery in Harare and the British Council, and marks the first time an individual country in sub-Saharan Africa has had official representation at Venice.
But he warned that insurgents were changing tactics to focus on high profile targets such as August's raid on the British Council offices in Kabul and the recent assassination of the country's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, which he described as a "major setback".
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Over the past eight years Steve has been contributing to the show from Beijing where he works for the British Council, popping back every now and then to caress the BBC Radio Lancashire's Mark II Chiltern studio desks he has known loved for years.
It seemed to me at one point during my research that she might have been murdered by one of the latter, and there are students of her work and at least one recent member of the British Council who believe this to be the case.
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