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5:06pm on Thursday, 27th October, 2022:
Outburst
I usually spend a lot of the early part of January writing exam questions for my students. I have to do six papers, with five questions each one four of them and four (harder) questions each on the other two. This takes quite some time, as I also have to answer the questions, not just wrack my brains trying to think of yet another way to ask something about the same material I've asked about multiple times over the years.
This year, though, I got in early! I spent most of my not-in-meetings and not-dealing-with-emails time for the past two weeks writing my exam questions. Yesterday, I finished them. Hooray! That's a huge weight off me.
About two hours after I finished them, just after a meeting with a PhD student in which I said how pleased I was to have written my exam questions, I received an email. It turns out that there were some January start students who took my second-year module, and one or more of them failed. I need to supply a resit paper by 7th November.
This kind of thing happens all the time. It's relentless. I'll finish the resit paper and then something else will be dumped on me. This isn't just me, it's all of us.
Being only part-time, I'm not a member of the University and College Union, but I can see why they voted to go on strike over working conditions.
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