Thread: The End of the British Council?

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

It is sad that government has to come in between education. Hopefully you can still keep your job and the BC doesn't disappear.

They're basically owned by the government, MM. It's British soft power like the Alliance Francaise and the Goethe Institut.

I left em years ago, so the chances of losing my job are minimal.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

And yet I've brought up three children virtually single handed and am putting them through university after they attended ofsted outstanding schools and gained high grades.

I've guided, motivated and nurtured them all the way.


What have you done?

Trolled the Internet for 20 years Sat on a trustfund.


Ti's terribly sad, t,be sure

This last page of people ripping into each other.



We'll miss this place when it's gone.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

I tend to somewhat disagree with this point. Sometimes a student cannot learn the way a teacher teaches a certain subject like Math for instance. Not all learners are visual learners. Some students need to be taught more hands on learning to understand a concept. I failed grade 9 Math because I needed to be taught a different way. Just writing a formula on the board may not be the best way to teach all learners.
I took the course in summer school and passed quite easily. The teacher taught the subject differently and gave options to learn the concept other than looking at a formula on the board.

Learning styles was debunked decades ago

Originally Posted by Neverna

What happened with your education, BLD? Do you blame educators or TEFLers?

Eventually I drank myself clever nev.

Originally Posted by BLD

Eventually I drank myself clever nev.

Originally Posted by BLD

Eventually I drank myself clever nev.

Any particular poison? Thai beers and whisky don't seem to be so helpful otherwise TD would be overrun with Mensa members.

"I'm educated enough in basic phycology to know that you have daddy issues.

Why else would you waste your youth on here trolling older men?

It's obvious you wasn't given the attention you craved .


Now that few sentences would cost you thousands in therapy and you've got it here of me for free.

My sofa is a safe space for you."

The British Council will trash a precious national asset if it sells its art collection

Last month we all saw striking images of Emmanuel Macron standing in front of the Mona Lisa to announce plans for the major renovation of the Louvre. France is immensely proud of its national collection. The Louvre “renaissance” will cost an estimated €700-800m (£583-£666m). The five-year renovation of the Pompidou Centre, housing an extensive modern and contemporary art collection, will cost €262m. Accommodating more visitors and ensuring everyone can see the treasures of the collections is important to these French institutions and their funders.

I wish there was such good news on this side of the Channel. Recent reports that the British Council has been contemplating selling its art collection have shocked us all. The British Council holds works from artists including Henry Moore, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud and David Hockney, and shows them globally. It is our public face to the world. Yet chief executive Scott McDonald has said that due to a £250m pandemic-era emergency loan from the Foreign Office, with interest charged at £14m annually, the Council faces the “threat of insolvency”.

Unless there is a major intervention, the Council will have to axe hundreds of staff, withdraw its presence in up to 40 countries and sell off its art collection. Half of the 9,000-item collection is protected by agreements made with artists who donated work on condition that it would never be sold. But the rest have no such restrictions. McDonald has said he offered the collection to the government in exchange for writing off the loan, but to no avail.

As we wait for a resolution, the government may soon be faced with an even bigger challenge. The UK’s art collection is held not only in the great national museums in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, but in the network of local authority-funded museums, centres of civic pride. But there is a serious local authority funding crisis: many years of underfunding from government and the growing strain on their statutory services means that local authorities have precious little left over to fund cultural provision for their communities. As a result, they are being encouraged to look at their art collections as disposable assets.

Selling off the “family silver” is not the solution. Everyone, everywhere in the UK, shares ownership of our public collections and we all have the right to enjoy them. They are precious assets for future generations; local authorities are the custodians of our public collections, but the owners and beneficiaries are the public.

Any sell-off of the British Council’s artworks would open the floodgates for cash-strapped local authorities to have similar conversations. The precedent that would be set if the British Council sells even a few high-value paintings would be extraordinary – a government body set up to champion, collect and share British culture with the world decides it is OK to sell the most valuable works in its care in order to plug a financial hole.

Art Fund was created in 1903 by a group of artists and philanthropists, prompted by inadequate government funding for museums. It has helped the UK’s museums build world-beating collections, for all to enjoy. It has also been at the forefront of ensuring everyone has the opportunity to visit public collections, successfully campaigning for free access to national museums, and creating the National Art Pass, Student Art Pass and Teacher Art Pass.
If we lose our great collections for short-term gain we will never be able to get them back. Our national collections are the true wealth of the nation, a public benefit which everyone can value and share.

The British Council will trash a precious national asset if it sells its art collection | Art and design | The Guardian

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Probably the same story for most TEFLrs to be fair. They just chose the wrong career path.


Or more importantly didn’t actually choose but just fell into the only option available to stay in Thailand and drink cheap piss… once they wised up a little it was too late and now they are bitter.


Moral of the story, be intentional or you might end up a skint tefler trapped with a pregnant batgirl/7/11 cashier

This poster is 65 years old or more, with two children under 15, monitoring toilets in an African boarding school.

These are actual facts.

They're not some imaginary, 'worst case' scenario actually applying to nobody posting here, as depicted above.

Originally Posted by cyrille

This poster is 65 years old or more, with two braincells, monitoring CCTV in a backwater shithole

The irony, fixed it for you Ciz.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

The irony, fixed it for you Ciz.

Christ, but you're an idiot.

Have you not drunk enough alcohol to 'take the edge off' your night shift on the production line yet?

Originally Posted by cyrille

These are actual facts.

Christ, you’re a fool!