It has been a busy couple of weeks in French at Stirling, hence a bit of radio silence from the blog. However, before the month ends, we wanted to take a bit of time, firstly, to congratulate all our students, from Beginners to non-Beginners, from Year 1 to finalists, undergrads and postgrads, on having got through this very challenging year. Undergraduate teaching finished a couple of weeks ago and we’ve all been making our way through assessments and essay deadlines and oral exams and all the other work that comes, for students and staff, with the end of a semester. It has been intense but, on behalf of all of us in the French at Stirling teaching team, well done to everyone!
We’d also like to say thank you to all of the students who voted for French at Stirling colleagues in this year’s RATE teaching awards, particularly in the Best Tutor and Excellence in Teaching in Arts and Humanities categories. It really does mean a tremendous amount to receive the nominations and to see the quotes that explain why students have voted. Whether it’s for ‘insightful comments’, ‘excellent feedback’, for our ‘words of encouragement’, for being ‘friendly and approachable’ and ‘knowledgeable’ and ‘passionate’ about our subject and ‘very encouraging’, because we ‘make learning very enjoyable’ or because we ‘go the extra mile’ or because we give ‘every student their chance to air their views’, we’re all very grateful (thanks to all the individual students who put those lovely comments in their nominations!).
We were also particularly chuffed to be part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this year and to have been voted Faculty of the Year!
There’ll be more news and updates over the weeks ahead but, in the first instance, well done all round and thanks, in particular, to our students for all their hard work this year.
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