Our work in education brings people together to share expertise and innovation, enrich and improve teaching and learning and open up new opportunities across the world.
British Council Ireland and the British Embassy in Dublin hosted the 2026 UK-Ireland Alumni Networking Reception with partners University College Cork (UCC).
We are happy to share our higher education guide, developed to provide information to students from Ireland wishing to study in the UK, and students from the UK wishing to study in Ireland.
Our research shares new and strategic insights on UK-Ireland higher education collaboration, student mobility, institutional engagement and alumni engagement.
In November 2025, we organised a study visit for Welsh school teachers and local officials to learn about policy and best practice approaches in literacy, numeracy and teaching in Ireland.
We are partnering with Universities UK International (UUKI) to support an inward delegation of representatives from UK universities to Ireland in March 2025.
We partnered with the British Council International Education Programme Unit on a study visit to Ireland for Welsh school teachers and local authority stakeholders from 10-14 February 2025.
We took part in the Irish Times Higher Options for the second year to disseminate information and promote the UK as a study destination to Irish students.
On 27 March 2024, in collaboration with Cooperation Ireland, we hosted a focus group with 15 young people to explore British Council's Global Perceptions 2023 Survey.
Youth Connect supports young people to develop the skills, inspiration and connections to tackle major challenges.
Going Global 2023 took place from 20 - 22 November in Edinburgh. Going Global is a conference for leaders in international education to debate the future of further and higher education.
Academically Speaking helps support you in communicating your research and other topics that matter to you with more impact and effect, by leading skills coach, Malcolm Love.
Our research and reports offer new evidence and analysis of the ways in which cultural and educational exchange can help tackle some of today’s major global and domestic issues
The British Council in Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy have published a discussion paper on Race, Ethnicity and Change in Higher Education.
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