The idea evolved into the production of an online Student Magazine as part of an elective class that ran during the 1997Pre-Sessional Course. You can have a look at our Archives for now: watch this space for the next issue!

During the 1997-98 Pre-Entry Session, and the 1998 Pre-Sessional Course, there were some really excellent pieces of work produced by our students, who created their own homepages., ranging in subject matter from Peru, to scuba diving in Tenerife, to Okinawan music and dance, to Italian music.

During the Autumn Term of the 1998-99 Pre-Entry course, the 'IT Skills' course was renamed 'Computer Assisted Study Skills' (CASS) in order to reflect the range of skills (both technological and linguistic) that our students are taught in this class. As part of their training in effective use of the Internet for research, some of the students have produced Web pages which are essentially a collection of links to sites on a particular theme (from Swiss fondue to leishmania!) that they had to search for and evaluate.

The September 1999 work is the result of a our Pre-Sessional elective, Using Computers to help Develop Academic Writing Skills. The pieces are essentially short essays based on students' opinions (which are first aired on our Class Discussion Board) and Web-based research on topics which they have chosen to explore.

The August 2000 work features students' responses to an article in the Guardian, Gene fears end pig testing.