A couple of weeks ago I altered the blog heading to read “…Year 3…”. All was well, we had a student for each block and the life model was ready and willing. I filled in my application form for access to the Keele IT system, and was about to post it when I learned that the Anatomy and Art SSC has been cancelled this year because it isn’t cost effective for one student per block. This is interesting, since they effectively pay me by the hour. The ways of Academe are strange indeed, and none of us heard the goalposts being moved.
Fortunately I hadn’t put a stamp on the envelope with the IT form in it.
I await developments….. (and have deleted a paragraph, and changed several adjectives in the above, this being a semi-public forum.)