HC Deb 18 October 1966 vol 734 cc5-6W
Mr. Longden

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what arrangements are made by the British Embassy in Washington to further Anglo-American co-operation in English language teaching which was an essential part of the work of the Counsellor (Education) before that post was withdrawn in 1962.

Mrs. White

The British Embassy in Washington provides the link between the British Council, which has the primary responsibility for promoting English-language teaching overseas, and the United States State Department and interested agencies. The British Council has no Representative in the United States, but Anglo-American collaboration in English language teaching has been strengthened by a series of meetings of experts and officials and by a visit made to Washington last June by the Director-General of the British Council at the invitation of the United States State Department.