Praise indeed, from SLAS to SSHLS

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By Tom West

Last updated: Mon 10th Nov 2008 at 12:29

At the end of this month, the School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS) loses one of its key staff members, and a person whom I have come to consider possibly the most helpful member of staff ever to have been employed by the University of Portsmouth.

Louisa Caine, the current Senior Course Administrator based in Park building, has been looking after a great deal of the SLAS students for the past few years, especially those of us on our year abroad.

It is no doubt thanks to her amazing organisational, administrative and interpersonal skills that we are all able to do what we need to do when we need to do it and have thereby avoided being institutionalised/imprisoned/extradited/ lost whilst in a foreign country.

She has received what I believe to be a long overdue promotion, to the lofty position of School Manager in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies and with effect from the 30th April, she will be based in Mildam building.

"Possibly the most helpful member of staff ever to have been employed by the University of Portsmouth."

If there are any students or staff members working within Mildam reading this, then I would like you to know you are soon to be amongst the most fortunate of people; with Louisa at the helm, your ship is bound to run as smoothly as if it were being carried in the arms of the gods (not that we’re gushing, but she is actually that good).

I would also like to rally together all the students and staff based at Park building in saying ‘Thank you! Thank you! And Thank you!’ to Louisa for everything she’s ever done for us.

You are leaving behind a great deal of both students and colleagues who greatly appreciate the hard work and dedication you have shown; the place will not be the same without you.

Katherine Ross, who currently looks after the incoming exchange students within School of Languages Area Studies, has been fully briefed on the insanity she can expect from her new charges and will be taking over from Louisa.

We are confident that she will take to her new responsibilities like a duck to water and make us proud to have her as part of the team.

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