The British Council will be represented at this year’s International Language Teaching Research Colloquium (LTRC) at the University of Auckland, July 2-6 2018. Barry O’Sullivan will be part of the Symposium on the China Standards of English as impetus for change in English Language Teaching and Learning and Assessment in China. Other members of the British Council Assessment Group will also present their papers; they have developed the British Council English Assessment Tool, Aptis.