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 TRAINING STAGE OF EUROSKILLS PROJECT LAUNCHED
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 The training stage of our Euroskills project was launched with an official reception in the residence of the British Ambassador on 11 September, with the participation of the General Secretary of the Secretariat General for EU Affairs (EUSG) Ambassador Oguz Demiralp and Deputy Director of the UK Cabinet Office’s European Policy Directorate Neil McMillan.
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| STUDY IN THE UK WITH A CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIP
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 Would you like to receive a scholarship for postgraduate study in the UK? Here is your chance to apply to the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship programme for the next academic year. There are over 2,200 new Chevening scholarships globally each year, and you could be one of them this year.
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| OLIMPIARTS: challenging stereotypes while bringing YOUNG PEOPLE together
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 The Youth Action through Sports and Culture project continues to engage young people from Turkey to empower them in managing and operating transnational projects built on Olympic ideals. Last year, the project asked young people in 10 Southeast European countries to identify an issue they wanted to resolve in their community.
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| NEW ONLINE COURSE FOR EDUCATION UK AGENTS
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 British Council will run the online certificate course, ‘Education UK Certificate for Agents.’ This is a qualification designed for agents by the British Council to increase their capacity in order to promote the UK as a study destination.
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| EDUCATION UK, JUST A CLICK AWAY
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 Education UK, your ultimate guide to education in the UK, now has a renewed,
more user-friendly website at www.educationuk.org.tr. Education UK
continues to help prospective students to gain access to extensive information
on studying in the UK.
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| USA SAYS YES TO IELTS
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 The demand for International English Language Testing System (IELTS) continues to increase as hundreds of US institutions recognize the test. Such organizations include four-year undergraduate institutions, graduate and professional institutions, two-year and community colleges, as well as specialized, certificate, and diploma programmes
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| A WORKSHOP ON WRITING REFERENCES AND APPLICATIONS
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 British Council will collaborate with UCAS, the central organisation that processes applications for full-time undergraduate courses at UK universities and colleges, for a workshop in Istanbul on 26 September.
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| ISTANBUL BIENNIAL WELCOMES BRITISH ARTISTS
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 As the 10th International Istanbul Biennial is approaching, four British artists
are preparing to showcase their work in September. Over 150 projects by more
than 100 artists and artist groups from 35 different countries will be launched
across the city during the Biennial, running between 8 September and 4 November.
The British artists whose work will be featured in the Biennial are Tomoko
Yoneda, Jonathan Barnbrook, Justin Bennett and Ian Kiaer.
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| FROZEN WAVES TO BRIGHTEN ISTANBUL NIGHTS
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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.
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Here is your chance to enter a competition offering the chance of a lifetime to study English in the UK. The competition, launched by the British Council and English UK, is part of the ‘Let your English grow’ campaign run as part of the Prime Minister’s Initiative for International Education. It is open to people of all ages living in Turkey. To enter, all students have to do is visit 
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was in Ankara recently to reaffirm UK’s support for Turkey’s EU accession. In between his busy schedule, he paid a visit to British Council premises