In essence the British Council seeks to help educational exporters in three ways: firstly by acting as an information source for prospective learners and/or purchasers of education; secondly, by providing reference facilitities for educational enquiries; and thirdly, by bringing together educational providers and prospective purchasers of education.

In keeping with its role as a disseminator of information the Council maintains a database which enables individuals to conduct searches. At present this database is receiving in the order of three hundred hits per month and this number is rising steadily.
The Council is constantly extending the range of courses mentioned on the database.