This November the British Council in Ukraine will celebrate its tenth anniversary. In these years with the assistance of the Council many Ukrainians have got an opportunity to make a closer acquaintance with the culture and science of the United Kingdom, learn more on about its democratic values and processes, get an education in Great Britain, learn or improve their English, and use the Council’s Resource and Information Center, etc. Recently the first issue of the Creativity. Learning. Society newsletter of the British Council was published, whose target audience is everybody engaged with new ideas, approaches, trends, and information, interested in Ukraine’s integration into the European Union, and simply wanting to know what modern Britain looks like and whether it differs from the proverbial country of Sherlock Holmes, fogs, and social contrasts depicted in Soviet English language textbooks.
In spite of its relatively small volume, the newspaper contains much useful information on all directions of the British Council’s activities: creative arts, education, teaching English, innovative science, and democratic values. Here you can find stories about the council’s latest actions, such as celebrating Europe Day in Kyiv and Lviv, the British Film Festival our newspaper wrote about, scientific and educational conferences and seminars, educational projects, etc. There are also useful tips from the British Council workers on finding information on the European Union or studying in Great Britain at their website (www.britishcouncil.org.ua), an account of the Everyman Millenium Library’s special 150-volume collection comprising the best known works of world literature written or translated into English, books from which were received by sixty Ukrainian libraries under the support of the Council and the UK government. And when you are finished with these serious and interesting libraries, you can switch to the “dessert,” trying to win one of the books from the Everyman Millennium Library by answering the contest questions or making yourself a Power Juice by a recipe from the Science Across Europe project participants who promise that “one sip of this sharp and zingy flavors will wake you up instantly.”
The new British Council publication can be found at any of its branches in Ukraine. Incidentally, now there are already five of them: in Kyiv, Odesa, Donetsk, Lviv, and Kharkiv. Soon the British Council website will feature an online version of the newspaper in addition to the hard copy one.
