Back to Uni

I’m back in Manchester now, getting settled back in to the university routine. With only a little difficulty, I’ve managed to get my timetable sorted, and everything should be in place for the start of lectures next week. I say ‘with only a little difficulty’, because for some totally pointless reason, the university has abolished departmental offices. So now, if I need to find out something about my course, I have to wait in a very long line to speak to one of the two very harassed, and totally clueless admin people at the ‘Student Information Point’. It’s gone from a system where each department in the faculty had an office of its own, with a couple of full time staff, who knew what they were doing, and knew who the academic staff were, to a system where the whole faculty shares two people who don’t seem to know who half the academic staff are, even the well known and respected ones! Anyway, rant over. The professors are revolting, and trying to put pressure on the university administration, so maybe it won’t stay like it is for long.