 Hi, I'm Professor David Wilson and I am Director of the Foundation College here at Saoas and I'll talk briefly for a minute about the Foundation Year Programme. We have two undergraduate foundation years. The social science arts and humanities route and the business management economics and law route. Students who start the foundation year are often not sure of which courses they would really like to take. A foundation year allows them to try those different options and understand the difference between let's say politics and international relations. This allows them to make a more informed decision. Obviously one of the most difficult problems students starting the university course has is making the transition from secondary school doing A levels to the much more demanding and different type of study you'll be doing at university. So the main focus of the academic practice module is really helping students develop independence, self-direction, being able to reflect on their own work and really develop their own critical thinking skills. What I learned I can now apply for my next few years at Saoas and I'm really excited about it. Also it helped me narrow down what I really want to do in the future because I got the option to see all those departments which Saoas offers and make sure that what I want to study is the right thing for me. Saoas University is a globalist thinking university. We take every part of the world in perspective. We've got great subjects and degrees for the undergraduate years. We are as I said completely unique and esoteric in many ways and we look to sort of decolonize our modules. I think that's something that's really important today and going forward. Because of the diversity at Saoas we learn how to look at things from different perspectives and different angles and that's coupled with the ability to make a strong argument and fight for what you believe in is very powerful. Taking a foundation year at Saoas was one of the best decisions I ever made. I was really happy because it helped me overall in to improve all my skills such as writing, reading and even expressing myself in front of a class. I think a lot of our students are expressed not just that they feel they're getting better but they're really having a great interesting intellectually stimulating time and I think that for some of them is a surprising thing to find in a foundation program and we're really proud of how that's working out with our students.