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Together We Succeed

Recruitment

The Foundation Program would like to again extend a warm welcome our
newest staff member to the program. Lise Lacasse has joined us this year in
the English Language Unit. Lise comes to us from Canada. She has previously
taught in Princess Norah University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Dec.2012- Dec. 2014
and Mohammed University (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) Sept. 2008- June 2010
and has more than 15 years of experience teaching English. She is currently
teaching in Level Two.
Staff and Student Induction and Numbers

Here at the Foundation program, we began the year expecting approximately
200 to 250 students to enter the program in Term 1. Instead, we received
around 450 new students. As a result of the hard work and dedication of the
Administrative Committee and our registration team, all students have been
successfully placed and inducted into the Foundation Program. This proved
particularly challenging for Level One resources to teach the 5 extra hours
of Level 1 English. With teachers working overtime and part-time teachers
for both English and Math, all students have been well served in Term One.
The Foundation Program also welcomes back 40 staff members for this
academic year. The English Unit has a team of 29 staff, Math is taught by a
team of 5, and our IT team consists of 4 teaching staff.
FP Alumni Committee

Another very exciting development here at the Foundation Program in the past
few months is the forming of the FP Alumni Committee. The aim of this
committee is to increase our engagement and benefit from the students who
have successfully passed through our program and onto their studies at the
university. The committee started the year with some very exciting activities
that celebrate our successful students and also benefit current ones. First,
peer tutoring revision sessions were organized in the days before Midterm
Exams. Four Alumni students assisted 12 current students in their preparation
for exams. Second, a skills workshop was prepared by one of our former
students on ‘Presentation Skills’. 27 current students attended, in addition to
a good number of FP faculty and staff. Finally, the committee rounded out the
term with a second skills workshop prepared by a DU graduate student on
the subject of ‘Class Attitudes’.

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