On Friday, 31 January 2014, the UIC Faculty of Education opened its doors to a total of eighty former students. The evening consisted of an exchange of experiences that brought former students and professors back together again.

The reunion was inaugurated by Dr. Enric Vidal, the Dean of the faculty, who highlighted the importance of continuing education through initiatives such as the lecture series "Edu al día" and announced new programmes for both English language teaching and the Master’s Programme in Family Conflict Resolution offered in collaboration with the UIC’s Institute of Advanced Family Studies (IESF).

Marianna Zanuy, the Director of the Alumni Association, encouraged the attendees to boost the alumni network through social networks (the faculty already has Twitter and Facebook accounts) and remarked on the accumulated experience of the hundreds of UIC alumni who bring the values of the UIC to their workplaces.

Then came the main lecture given by Albert Serrat, an expert in communication techniques for teachers. The speaker used games, riddles and role-playing to explain the importance of non-verbal communication. “A teacher’s speech should be objective, confident, empathetic and clear. But the most important thing is to transmit authenticity. We need to depend on the power of audiovisual images, which should support the spoken word rather than compete with it. We need to be sure that the message is understood by trying to get a response from our interlocutor”, he concluded.