British Council

He first visited Edinburgh in 2007 on a British Council tour, when he was running the South African National Arts Festival.

Dr Shah will float the idea of a permanent BBC charter, which would bring the BBC in line with other institutions such as the British Council, the Bank of England and UK Sport.

A British Council report valued Durga Puja’s 2019 economic impact at over $4.5bn, nearly 3% of West Bengal state’s GDP.

A report from the British Council last week suggested the "post-Covid boom" in international-student numbers would end this year, because of "rising political pressure against migration" and the increasing cost of studying in the UK.

Data from the British Council's latest report on language trends in England, external, published in June, suggests the take-up of some foreign language subjects is dwindling.