British Council Malaysia

Aspiring UK students — your UK adventure starts here! Get ready to thrive with our essential webinar! 🌍✈️

Here's what we'll cover:
✅ Before departure: Smart packing and accommodation tips
✈️ Travel essentials: Visa guidance and smooth travel hacks
🛬 Arrival tips: Navigating immigration and settling in
🏠 Life in the UK: Embracing the culture and exploring student cities
🎒 Study skills: Unlock your academic success
💚 Well-being first: Managing stress and finding support

Don’t miss out!

Secure your spot today at https://ow.ly/6oHE50Z7S6s and get ready for a life-changing experience! ⚡️

🍃🌏 Seasonality of the Anthropocene - by Felicia Liu of University of York and Jakob van Klang.

What happens when the seasons we once knew begin to disappear?

When haze returns like clockwork, floods become annual rituals, harvests grow uncertain, and familiar birdsongs fade from our everyday lives.

Seasonality of the Anthropocene brings together artists from Malaysia, the UK, Singapore, and the Philippines to explore how environmental change is reshaping the rhythms, cycles, and memories that define our relationship with the world. Through installation, photography, performance, film, sound, and interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers, the exhibition invites us to reflect on the changing seasons of the Anthropocene - the era in which human activity has become a defining force on the planet.

📍 A.POP & Jalan Negara Kita, Melawati, Kuala Lumpur
🎉Opening Reception and Artist Sharing Session
📅7 June 2026 (Sunday)
⏲️11am-1pm
🎟️Free Admission

Exhibition ongoing: 7-30 June 2026, open daily, 11am-5pm

Join us for artist performances, sharing sessions, and conversations with artists, researchers, and the community.

Supported by the British Council's Connections Through Culture.

The British Council and Glasgow International are delighted to be welcoming a delegation of international curators to the city for the opening week of Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art. 🎨

The visit is part of the British Council's Visual Arts Biennials Connect programme, which brings together early and mid-career international curators to support their curatorial practice, professional development and opportunities for collaboration.

Delegates will join from Senegal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Malaysia, Australia, Palestine, Ukraine, Turkey and the Philippines and meet the artists and curators taking part in the festival, alongside wider members of Scotland’s rich visual arts sector. 🤝

From Malaysia we are pleased to have Rebecca Yeoh join the delegation - an educator, researcher, and curator working across literature, culture, and visual arts. A PhD candidate in Sociology and Anthropology at Universiti Malaya, her research explores how memory shapes individual and collective identities through literary texts. Her curatorial practice consistently engages with memory, trauma, and alternative histories in Malaysia. She is Programmes Director for Asia West East Centre and has led and co-curated exhibitions supported by CENDANA, the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, and the British Council's Connections Through Culture programme, including Reframe and Resist.

To quote our previous delegates, the Biennials Connect programme is ‘a chance for curators to connect, share different concerns and familiar experiences. It encourages us to think bigger, to be bold, and to continue doing the work.’ ❤️

Wishing all our delegates an inspirational trip to Glasgow!

Image 1: each body wakes up on a wave - Rudy Kanhye & Lauren La Rose at Glasgow Print Studio as part of Glasgow International 2024. Photography: Eoin Carey

🎓💼 Academia vs. Industry: Who measures communication skills better?
Universities rely on written exams and standardized tests. Employers look for real-time verbal ability and interview performance. The result? A gap that leaves graduates underprepared for the workplace.

In this webinar, our expert panel dives into:
✅ How communication assessment differs across education and employment
✅ The limits of traditional methods like exams and coursework
✅ Why interactive, real-time communication is so hard to measure
✅ How CEFR and shared standards can bridge the divide

🎤 Featuring:
• Kamini Taneja (Moderator), British Council
• Jyotsna Dharmarajan, NatWest
• Ridmi Handapangoda, University of Colombo
• Richard Spiby, British Council

🎥 Watch the full video on YouTube 👇
https://youtu.be/Y0DOzmm69W0

🔁 Help educators and employers align on what matters. Like, share, and tag someone working in learning & development or higher ed.

How can assessment truly support learning in real classrooms?
Join Tar Yar Linn Htet (Myanmar) founder of Bridging for Myanmar Teachers and host of the Late Night Teachers podcast as he shares practical, classroom-focused assessment strategies for English language teachers across Southeast Asia.

With extensive experience supporting teacher development and building educator communities, Tar Yar brings practical insights grounded in real teaching contexts.

📚 Practical Assessment Strategies for Teachers
📅 Wednesday, 17 June 2026
🕓 16.00–17.00 (Indonesia W.I.B, Viet Nam & Thailand time) 15:30 Myanmar time
📍 Online via Zoom & TeachingEnglish Asia page
🎟 Free registration | E-certificate provided

👉 Register now : https://britishcouncil.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RksOriInSH-_NPt-vuywvg #/registration

TeachingEnglish: Assessing learning – professional development course for English language teachers.
By the end of Assessing learning, you’ll be able to:
• design assessment methods that take into account ways to include all learners fairly
• apply relevant and appropriate assessment for learning (AfL) strategies
• adapt different types of test tasks to make test preparation more enjoyable and motivational for your learners
Register now: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0rVkdV0

Assessment doesn’t have to be complicated to be effective.

Join us for Practical Assessment Strategies for Teachers an engaging webinar exploring simple, practical, and context-sensitive approaches to classroom assessment across Southeast Asia.

Hear from inspiring educators:
🎙 Tar Yar Linn Htet (Myanmar) educator, community builder, and founder of Bridging for Myanmar Teachers
🎙 Vũ Thị Bích (Viet Nam) primary English teacher passionate about digital tools and learner engagement
🎙 Moderated by Shelia Anjarani (Indonesia) lecturer, researcher, and board director of iTELL Indonesia

Together, they’ll share practical ideas for:
✔ Checking learner understanding
✔ Supporting student progress
✔ Using digital tools for assessment
✔ Exploring accessible ways AI can support feedback

📅 Wednesday, 17 June 2026
⏰ 16.00 – 17.00 (Indonesia W.I.B, Viet Nam & Thailand time) 15.30 Myanmar time
📍 Online via Zoom & TeachingEnglish Asia page
🎟 Free registration | E-certificate provided

👉 Register now : https://britishcouncil.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RksOriInSH-_NPt-vuywvg #/registration

Celebrate World Bicycle Day with the British Council! 🚲

The humble bicycle is good for our health, the economy, and the environment. Check out our latest Pictionary design to learn English vocabulary words for a bicycle.

Pedal toward your goals and sign up for an English class today! You can learn online or in class

🔗 https://www.britishcouncil.my/english-courses/adults/ielts-coach