more fun and games.

To the Crescent Road site this morning, for an Audience with Lee Nicholls, the director of the college: The theme? 'Our OFSTED report, why we're crap and what we're going to do about it', or something like that, anyway. Despite the inspection highlighting that Leadership and Management were poor, it seemed that it would be down to us poor groundlings to take the flak and implement the Post Inspection Action Plan. Moreover, there was nothing in Lee's shiny Powerpoint presentation to indicate what, if any, changes were to be made to the management. One thing caused a rumble of discontent and disbelief; Our Leader wants us to have OFSTED standard observations of lessons on a weekly basis! Bloody ridiculous and unworkable; OTL observers would be doing nothing but observe and feed back instead of teaching themselves. One person, a bitter and twisted lecturer who's been with the college since about 1847, piped up, or rather, ranted at Lee for 5 minutes; I don't think it was because of the plan in particular, it was just an opportunity for a shout.