CE Chipping
How are the new Academies and Polytechnics going? Now that the rush to move into new offices and the scramble for the increased number of middle management positions within the campuses, formerly known as TAFE and Colleges, has finished. I would like to report some of the observations that come my way.
WHILST I was marking papers in the staffroom the other day I happened to overhear a peculiar new procedure for procuring a whiteboard pen. Whilst previously within this campus, that was formerly a college of learning, one just needed to go to the stationary cupboard and judicially help oneself to stationary requirements; it now seems that to procure a pen in the new Polytechnic a teacher must first seek permission from what is now called a “Team Leader”. The “Team Leader” after checking the availability of sufficient funds will then allow the “Team” clerical assistant to purchase the pen and on its arrival to the clerical assistant, the clerical assistant will then dispatch the pen to the teacher. In this particular case the “Team Leader” and clerical assistant, as is the want of the new system, happened to be situated on another campus, thus the clerical assistant would be dispatched by car to deliver the required pen. Heaven forbid if it was the wrong colour!
And,
EMAIL … that modern and essential communication tool of the 21st century went missing for students in the first month of the new Polytechnics and Academies, and now that it has appeared it seems student email has been outsourced to Microsoft.
At what cost and why couldn’t the bureaucratic behemoth that is Shared Services provide student email within house. Is it true that no screening of student email will occur and therefore cyber bullying and inappropriate content will not be monitored?
