The students chose their modules using a manual ‘course sorter’. This was an enormous sectioned white roller blind. The Chinese contingent was extremely disappointed not to be able to select a particular combination of modules.

However, this was not my problem. Rather, I was trying to work out how to incorporate three 3-legged dogs into my teaching. I remarked to GMcM that the academic role had been so much easier at Queen Margaret College in the 1990s.