photo opportunity, 12.30pm, Saturday 25 August, Court Suite, Caird House, Perth Road, University of Dundee.
Language teachers who successfully completed the first video-conferenced diploma at the University of Dundee will receive their certificates in a special award ceremony tomorrow.
Nine teachers studied for the two year diploma - a tailor-made course for French and Spanish teachers to bring their German up to the required level for secondary teaching.
The Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Dundee created the German Diploma in 1994 in collaboration with the former Tayside Region, with a view to implementing government recommendations that a range of languages, rather than French alone, should be taught to pupils.
The course was delivered by high quality video conferencing linking up sites at Dundee, Paisley and Napier Universities. During two academic sessions the teachers took part in lively weekly video conferencing sessions conducted in German at their nearest University.
The group of nine teachers who pioneered the distance diploma includes four French native speakers. They are Ingrid Chagniard and Brigitte GuÈguen from Ayrshire, David Kerr from Dumfries and Galloway, Marianne McCafferty from Falkirk, Kenneth Robertson from East Lothian, and Anne Tulloch and Claire Wrigley from Fife. Leslie Ness, a Primary teacher in Perth and Kinross took the course for personal interest, while Freddy Galand, has recently returned to teach in France.
The Centre for Applied Language Studies hopes to run the distance diploma in German again in the near future.ENDS