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 TRAINING DELIVERY BEGINS FOR EUROSKILLS
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 As our Euroskills project enters its final stage, local trainers from the Prime Minister’s Secretariat General for EU Affairs (EUSG) will begin delivering training on Generic Communication Skills, EU Accession Related Negotiations and Drafting Skills, Strategic Communications Skills, Training of Trainers for Local Trainers, and Advanced English Language Training in October to civil servants working closely on Turkey’s EU accession process.
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| TEACHER TRAINING COURSES, THIS AUTUMN
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 Our wide range of teacher development courses will continue after September. Although the courses are run in Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir, an online version for those outside these cities will also be available on our web pages. Check our list of the teaching courses available to English teachers this autumn.
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| PEACEKEEPING IN TURKEY WITH ENGLISH
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 Alan Rutt recently arrived in Ankara to set up a new Peacekeeping English Project in Turkey. The project is funded by the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), and aims to help Turkish law enforcement agencies develop their English language training systems and capacity. Alan summarises his impressions of Turkey’s history, and its current political and military status.
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| MAHALLI SEMINARS IN EIGHT CITIES
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 Mahalli seminars continue as British Council’s English Language Teaching (ELT) team travel to eight cities, delivering seminars as part of the Ministry of Education’s In-service Education programme for English teachers at primary and secondary schools.
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| SOKAK LIGI TOURNAMENT BRINGS CHILDREN TOGETHER
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 As the Social Responsibility Association takes over the overall responsibility of the Sokak Ligi programme, Greater Izmir City Municipality hosted 15 teams from 15 cities for the national tournament. While children played against one another, the coaches and local coordinators received training on anger management, adolescent behaviour, communication with children, mentoring and leadership, as well as examining UK case studies shared by British and Turkish experts.
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| VISUALISE, WHERE ART MEETS SCIENCE
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 Here is your chance to watch Visualise – the Beauty of Science on 8 November, as Ankara’s Middle East Technical University will host this one-hour inspirational show where art meets science. This unique visual spectacle is part of British Council’s Beautiful Science project, providing a creative platform for science communication among young people.
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| PROSTHETIC LUNGS AND ELECTRONIC NOSES IN CUBED
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 Learn about the prosthetic lung mimicking our natural lungs, and the motion-sensing device that could change how we could use computers in the latest edition of Cubed, British Council’s e-zine on how science is shaping our everyday life.
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British Council will be part of this year’s Biennial with Frozen Waves, a
continuous programme of media work on screen in one of Istanbul’s busiest
squares overlooking the Golden Horn from 6 September. New works by artists Babak
Ghazi, Mustafa Hulusi, Mark Titchner and Eva Weinmayr from the UK and Paul
Snowden from Germany will be broadcasted via publicly-sited screens in Istanbul
and the UK.