A Slice Of Life

Always good to savour. I really enjoy working with our students in their clinical practice. I love working with academic colleagues who like to think out of the box. On the other hand, let me share with you dear Blipsters...

We are being moved over to marking students’ submitted work on-line.

We all like to have nice hard copies so we can mark with pencils and steaming mugs of coffee at our elbows. But that’s not the point the we understand; "it's more efficient".

The students' work is anonymised so the course assistant has to email us to advise us which ones to download from the Leeds internal web-site.

The course assistant was on holiday when the submission deadline was due, so we tutors can do other things rather than what we’d all planned this weekend (like read books; no hardship of course...)

The course director doesn’t approve the assistant’s holiday (the admin department do), so not even she can advise us (or herself) which work to mark. Because it is anonymised.

A few months ago we’d agreed to meet as a team next Tuesday to discuss how we’d been getting on individually marking this week-end. But we won’t have.

When I read this book in my teens it felt fresh and totally different from anything else I’d read. In my early twenties at University, it was a bit of a cult and we often quoted chunks at each other. Now, in my early thirties (*ahem*), it is still hitting the mark.

The moral is this. Always (mostly) tell the truth and don’t (openly) fight authority. They are always going to try and kill us and just because we don’t know who they are, it doesn’t mean they aren’t trying to kill us.