Writing minutes is a proper pain in the arse. It's bad enough having to write down what was actually said in the three hour committee meeting but it's even worse when you have to write what
should have been said. And it's always the external examiners reports, which you might think are Quite Important. Problem is, there's a lot of them and no one can be arsed to read them so the Chair just says, 'anyone got anything to say on these?' By this time, people are just calculating how many biscuits they can stuff into their pockets when they leave so no one has anything to say.
So the next day, I write about how the committee carefully scrutinised each report and demanded immediate remedial action where bad practice was identified. I might try and do what
that copper did and slip in song lyrics to the minutes to see if anyone notices:
"Professor Smith noted that we're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks."
Seamless! And no one ever reads them. Except for the
QAA of course and I bet even they skim them.
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