British Council completes professional English programme for Tamil Nadu government officers

NEW DELHI: The British Council and the Tamil Nadu government, under collaboration for English language training, have completed a customised English language development course for the department of industries and commerce personnel of the Tamil Nadu government. Grace Pachuau, additional commissioner, industries and commerce, Tamil Nadu and Janaka Pushpanathan, director of British Council South India announced the completion of the customised English language development course on August 12.

According to a statement from the British Council, the English language development course was designed by the British Council with a focus on business workplace communication, email and report writing, and was delivered to 41 officials. The courses were delivered over a period of about 8 weeks, from June 20 to August 12.

The British Council and the Tamil Nadu state government have an agreement to collaborate on English language training for Tamil Nadu’s youth to help them in speaking and writing English fluently, attend interviews, and better their employability chances. Under the agreement, the British Council library and English learning centre in Chennai will collaborate to provide a learning hub for entrepreneurs, and visitors from the UK and for the people of the city of Chennai.

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“It has been a great experience working with British Council to deliver this programme on business English communications to our officials across the state. The specially customised and curated courses delivered holistic understanding of communicating in the English language that will add long-term value to our officers. We believe that with this training the officers will be able to carry out their tasks with more confidence and efficiency. We have received very positive feedback from the candidates and look forward to initiating more programmes like this, with British Council,” says Pachuau.