As expected the Training Lab was of greatest benefit to
international students that do not start in the first year of the
undergraduate program (equal benefit in first year subjects). A
repeated observation, among a number of different
laboratories, was that the resource provided the international
students an opportunity to make better use of the laboratory
time. Entering the laboratory for the first time was no longer a
juggle between coming to terms with new foreign
equipment/software, and concentrating on the learning
objectives of the experiment.