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Women into Multimedia, HNC in Multimedia. Average mark obtained: Distinction. Organised by Vera Media (Film, Video, Multimedia, Production, Training, Advice) based in Leeds. With help from the European Social Fund and The Learning Skills Council.

1998-2005, postponed

University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. Researching my PhD thesis on the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language using new media and the VLE.

1997-1998

University of Oviedo. PhD dissertation. La Funcionalidad de lo No-Verbal en Una Comedia Ligera de Eduardo Mendoza(71 pages). Studying alternative forms of communication in Literature and their importance to the text.

1996-1998

University of Oviedo. PhD studies in Spanish Literature and Theory, including Utopia and Literature; The Argentinean Novel (1976 - 1996); Contemporary Spanish Poetry; Poetic and Narrative Structures in Film. Average grade ≈ 1 st.

1996-1997

University of Oviedo. Curso de Adaptación Pedagógica (CAP) Teaching English and Spanish as foreign languages. Equivalent to a PGCE in the UK.

1995-1996

University of Leeds, West Yorkshire. Completed my English degree with an Erasmus grant. Studied English and American Literature, Semantics, Translation. Average grade ≈ 2.1.

1991-1996

University of Oviedo. Degree in English Philology (full time five-year-degree, in English and Spanish.) Studied Spanish Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics & Literature, Latin, British and American Literature & History, Commonwealth Literature, English Language and English Linguistics (History of English Language, Medieval English, Anglosaxon, Phonetics, Semantics, Syntactics, Generative Grammar). Average grade ≈ 2.1.

1987-1991

Universidad Laboral (C.E.I.), Gijón, Asturias. Studied B.U.P. and C.O.U. Average grade ≈ A.