Tamil Nadu government partners with British Council to enhance English communication skills and teaching methodology
India Today
Tamil Nadu government to work closely with the British Council on areas of mutual interest for the state and the UK.
The British Council, UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, inked an Operational Alliance Agreement (OAA) on Sept 23, 2022 with the Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women under the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Government of Tamil Nadu for the DDU-GKY scheme.
The OAA signed by S.Divyadharshini, IAS, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women (TNCDW), Government of Tamil Nadu, and Janaka Pushpanathan, Director, South India, British Council, aims to strengthen cooperation between the State of Tamil Nadu and the UK.
The OAA will facilitate the development of a sustainable solution to enhance the communicative skills of learners and teaching methodology of faculty under the DDU-GKY scheme.
The programme will focus on government stakeholders and rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years who are the beneficiaries of the DDU-GKY scheme. This is in line with the CM’s mega scheme, ‘Naan Mudhalvan’ launched in March this year, that aims to equip about 10 lakh young people across the state annually.
As part of the OAA, British Council will enable the Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women under the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, the body responsible for the implementation of various centrally-sponsored, state-funded and externally-aided schemes for employment generation, women’s social and economic empowerment, among other key functions, to develop a special curriculum for training educators in collaboration with leading universities and higher education institutions in the UK.
The British Council already works with the state of Tamil Nadu to deliver programmes aimed at improving English proficiency of the youth and faculty in the state, through other existing partnerships.
Most recently, in August, British Council signed an MoU with the Department of Industries and Commerce, Government of Tamil Nadu, to upskill government officers in English based on their level of proficiency.
