March 2003
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Bursaries to help Future Translators

Four students have benefited from a £32,000 donation awarded to the Department of Languages and European Studies.

Jacqueline Chavez, Daniel Pashley, David Andahur and Natalie Kaalman will each receive a £2,000 bursary towards their studies on the one-year diploma and MA course in Interpreting and Translating.

Anna Radcliffe (centre) meets the bursary students (left to right) Jacqueline Chavez, Daniel Pashley, David Andahur and Natalie Kaalman

The bursaries were established by Anna Radcliffe, who pledged to donate £32,000 to postgraduate students in Modern Languages over four years. Twelve students have so far benefited from the funding. Anna was recently invited to meet the students taking this year's course, where she said that she and her husband, Don, decided to donate the money after realising the financial struggle students faced. Their son Philip, 29, graduated from the University with a BA in French and German in 1996 and an MA in Interpreting and Translating in 1998.

Head of Department Dr John Russell said: "These four students might not have been able to do the course but for this financial help. It was a very generous act. We are pleased that they are now here and set to become top-class interpreters and translators."

18 March 2003

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