India: English for Progress
According to the Times of India, as part of its global vision for English, the British Council has launched the programme ‘Project English’ in India and Sri Lanka. The aim is that by 2010 every teacher and learner of English in the world will have access to skills, ideas and materials they need from the UK. “This global ambition got a local fillip when, during his visit to India in 2008, Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister met his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and committed the British Council to train, directly or indirectly, 750,000 English teachers in India over the next five years (2013).
In order to achieve this vision, we have carved our work into three strands: corporate training, state partnerships and direct teaching of English,” said Chris Gibson, director, Project English (India and Sri Lanka).
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