South Africa’s Newest Teacher is Called the “Blue Lady”
Beeld, one of South Africa’s daily Afrikaans newspapers, recently ran a feature on the introduction of our MP3 Lifeplayers into South African classrooms. The country’s Department of Basic...
Lifeplayer Debuts in Bulenga, Uganda
by Sarah Baird. Seven miles from the center of Kampala, down a busy highway clogged with the hum of motorbike taxis and vans is the village of Bulenga. It’s a 45- minute journey through a...
Watch Our Solar MP3 Player in Ethiopia
An estimated 50,000 school children in Ethiopia now have the opportunity to learn English thanks to the British Council and Lifeline Energy. Watch this short video shot in a Merawi primary school in...
A Teacher who Provides more than Just an Education
The second teacher we’re profiling in our #teachertuesday series is our old friend, Mwenya Mvula. In 2001, Mr Mvula served as a volunteer ‘mentor’ in Zambia’s Learning at Taonga Market primary radio...
Haile’s Story: What the Learn English Radio Project Means to Teachers?
By Tsion Issaya, Communications Manager, British Council Ethiopia | HaileMeet 60 year old Haile Berhe. For more than half his life, he has worked as an English teacher. Born and raised in a small town in Tigray regional state.
The Joy of Watching Radio Learners – For the First Time
Eighty-four Grade 1 students in blue and white uniforms, sat scrunched close together on hard wooden bench-desks at New Mandevu school in Lusaka. Given the large number of children attending the...