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Ana De Medeiros - Facilities and Strengths

Our library is five minutes from the Templeman Library, which is the main library on campus. We have over a million books there. Obviously now with ebooks, et cetera, the students have access to all sorts of electronic sources as well. Within the department, the students have a common room where they can just relax and chill out. They also have a room just with different computers for them to use, depending on the type of project that they're working on. It's quiet room; they just go in there to study, it's just for them. The also have a media lab, so if they need to get connected to different TVs from different countries or do different audio interviews or things like that, we've got all the equipment for them depending on what they're working on.

I think, also, all our students, for example, at the beginning of the year, if they're research students, we actually take them to the British library, we register them there, and we introduce them to the collection at the British library. We have a wonderful student body, and we really work well together, the members of staff and the students. Sometimes, obviously, the easiest way to measure the strength of the school is by statistics. The French Department came seventh in the last research assessment exercise, seventh in the UK, so that shows that they research achievements of the members of the staff here is internationally acclaimed. That's a very easy way to measure it.

The way we know, it's how we interact with the students and they with us, the number of students we see progressing to the different programs, graduating, and also what the students then go on to do once they've graduated and the success they find in different careers. It's a less tangible way of measuring success, but for us here on the ground, that's the way we perceive it.

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