Bridges Across

“We have multi-racial classrooms,one of the biggest attraction for students from India to study in the UK,and we celebrate the multi-cultural facet in our education system and our relationship is all about culture,’’Ruth explains that the self-help website they are developing is an important activity to build exchanges,through which creative entrepreneurs will get a chance to identify what’s happening in the UK,relate it to India,get travel grants to pursue their interests and facilitate new thoughts and integration. “From our initial exchanges,we know that it is going to be popular,’’ smiles Ruth.

An interesting endeavour that’s underway is connecting classrooms back in the UK with India by developing a new curriculum on sports,as well as teaching teachers the value of new aids. This is being done with CBSE,UNICEF and UK educationists. “We are developing learning cards for children between six and ten and initiating learning through sports with the 2012 Olympics in mind. Resource packs,leadership training,grooming master trainers in English,our programmes are rooted in india,what India wants us to do,’’ Ruth says as an independent body Britsh Council’s their purpose is to build mutually beneficial relationships,with transparency.