 Mr. Chairman, Director, Ladies and Gentlemen, first of all to our graduates, I should like to add my congratulations to those of the Chairman and Director. We do hope your time at SOS has been rewarding and that it will stay with you as you progress in your career. As alumni, you're important ambassadors to the school and we do hope you'll keep in touch with us. I know that many years on, some of your sharpest memories will be of the people who have taught you and that brings me to the presentation of this year's Director's Prize for Teaching. The school has many brilliant teachers. We rank very highly in our specialist areas of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. National surveys rank so as at the very top for expert lecturers and our own in-house surveys show high levels of satisfaction among our students with the teaching they receive on their courses. What makes a great teacher? It's not just expertise in the subject. It also requires passion and communication skills and the ability to inspire, excite, encourage and guide. All these qualities we see in abundance here at the school. We reward these qualities by recognizing and honoring each year the best of our teachers. Director's Teaching Prize is one of the most important awards we make. It awards excellence in teaching and its purpose is to stimulate teaching and teaching related and other creative activities, particularly at the undergraduate level. The prize is open to any member of staff and nominations are welcome for both individuals and teaching teams. Since its inception some seven years ago, a wide variety of awards have been made to celebrate innovative teaching in such areas as modern and contemporary Japanese, Chinese languages and literatures, culture and development and world music on BBC. Nominations for the Director's Teaching Prize are judged by a panel comprising the Pro Director, Associate Deans for Learning and Teaching, Director of Academic Development, Representations from Students' Unions and we also have external members from other colleges of University of London and beyond. With each year's nominations throughout, the panel finds it increasingly difficult to choose between so much exceptional work. We've seen a record number of nominations this year, both in terms of quantity, we've had over 70 nominations but most important in terms of their quality. The task of selecting winners from the final shortlist of four was all the more difficult but also highly rewarding. Let me begin with the outstanding runner-up, Dr. Kersti Rowan, Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Linguistics. The panel was impressed with the reflective practice of her teaching methods and the developmental approach she took to the discipline. Dr. Rowan has been with us at the school since 1998 when she first joined as an undergraduate student and was subsequently appointed in 2004 as Senior Teaching Fellow. For the first time this year, graduate teaching assistants who contribute to teaching while undertaking the doctoral studies were also recognized for their excellence. Ms. Sarah Stivano, a PhD student in the Department of Economics, was awarded this year's Director's Prize for Teaching. She was commended for her reflective approach and ways in which she responded to the different abilities of her students. In particular, the panel applauded her experiments with the use of videos in teaching economics. And I now come to the 2013 Director's Teaching Prize. This year's prize goes to Dr. Kevin Manton for his work as a subject lecturer in the Department for International Foundation Courses and English Language Studies. IFCELS, as the department is known, is one of the UK's leading centres of excellence in providing academic and English language preparation for international students wishing to go on to degree level studies. Since 1985, thousands of students have gone on from IFCELS to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, both at SOAS and elsewhere in the UK. And I know that some of the graduates here today will have started their studies at SOAS on our foundation programme. Kevin was commended by the judging panel for the high standard he sets for his own teaching and his expectations from students. In particular, the panel was impressed by the strategies he adopts to help students become autonomous learners through web-based teaching and podcasts. While we were impressed by the innovation and imagination that Kevin brought to his course, the decisive factor for the panel was an old-fashioned consideration. Kevin's evident love and passion for teaching and nurturing his students. On that note, Mr. Chairman, I would now like to invite Dr. Kevin Manton to come forward to receive the 2013 Director's Prize.