Can't help thinking that it's my fault they decide at the last minute to delete a whole postgraduate programme because one of the other faculties is giving me a hard time. Their timetabler-monkey doesn't seem to have the Great Power I have over what runs where. I'm actually discovering that I have been making life a bit more difficult for myself than necessary!
Still, I do some pretty drastic things anyway and find myself in the great position of having to go through the entire programme and check every module individually for no good reason. They have decided to recruit about 200 more students than we can realistically handle, which offers interesting problems in terms of the rooms I've put everybody in.
Of course the vast over-recruiting has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that we are charging people fees these days and the University doesn't give a damn whether you make it past first year or not, as long as they get your money. Even better is the 'infinite resits' culture that means you can pay us over and over again while you don't do any work.
This year I deferred my student loan payments for the seventh time. My bank loan is down to its final 8 months after seven years, which means that I am nearly out of debt1 after only 8 years since leaving university.
No, I don't plan to go back.
- Naturally, the student loans don't count - I don't have to pay them back ever! Although there are those in my extended family who would disagree...
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