British Council reviews

Locally recruited staff don't enjoy the same benefits as UK appointed staff or staff who relocate

* Low pay, even for non-profit * Toxic work environment * Inflexible bureaucracy * Bickering and aggressive competition between different offices * They require recommendation from your current employer before they can give you a formal job offer (i.e. forget about a discreet job search!!) * Lack of opportunity to advance * Despite large office, not a great support network . Communication between different project staff in the same dept, let alone different departments, was essentially non-existent. * Finance and IT department was all outsourced to India, even the local finance director and IT staff could not help with basic issues * Questionable use of UK taxpayers' money for "charitable purpose" while generating profit from ESL teaching (i.e. is BC a genuinely charitable organization or an ESL/language school subsidized by public funds?). Questions regarding the validity of the organization's non-profit status in some countries isn't a great morale-booster. * If you aren't a revenue-generator (i.e. English teacher), you are an afterthought. * Restructuring * High turnover and staff dissatisfaction