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Nicki Williams and Dorothy Allen-Pickard have won The Guardian/Intergenerational Foundation/NUS film competition in the category of Young filmmaker documentary for their short film 'In the Name of Greatness'. Nicki, who graduated from Warwick in 2012 in English and Italian Literature, wrote and performed the poem featured in the film. The poem is combined with images to tackle questions of debt, greed, consumerism and the need for community. The film can be viewed at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2013/may/08/documentary-award-winner-name-greatness-video?INTCMP=SRCH

Warwick university is blazing a trail in working with other universities internationally to extend the reach and quality of our research, the scope of our teaching and the opportunities we can offer students and staff alike. Warwick is cooperating closely with Monash University in Melbourne Australia. The Department of German Studies at Warwick already has connections with German at Monash. Now a new joint PhD programme has been launched with funding - read on to find out more!

Find out more about how languages at Warwick have been performing in a global context. Click the main link for this news item to read more!

In the latest annual QS World University Rankings by Subject, modern languages at Warwick are collectively rated 26^th in the world. This places them above similar offerings in the universities of Cornell, Duke, Manchester, and King’s College London.

For the full table, see here.