Dec
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The Latest HEA/JISC Event
December 7, 2007 |
Organising a joint event between two organisations is not an enviable task, and this third (?) gathering of disparate JISC and HEA staff only confirmed how hard this is. I will keep my (copious) comments and views about the half of this event that I experienced between me and the appropriate people, but it was not for me a life affirming event.
Without meticulous attention a group of people with such a wide variety of experience and roles in the two organisations can rapidly turn into a damaging and deflating exercise. Do I need to be any more explicit?
However after delving into the dusty library in JISC World I came across a copy of the First Book of Madness, and seemingly at random came across these soothing words:
And in the ancient of days it was written by the high priest of Wistreich that whenever two or more JISC Services or Centres of Support in the far-flung regions of JISC World are gathered together, then verily there will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth and a mighty beating of breasts:
“We are not understood, nor are we valued. We are forced to use the evil Babelfish to translate the mighty words of JISC World and yet still we get no respite nor yet do we understand the teachings from the Readmeister and his servants”
The under workers of the Reidmeister grew weary of the ceaseless cries from outside of the inner circle and many fell into casting thoughts of the complainants into the deep recesses of their minds in order that they might pay devotions to their own and proper demons
But it also written that one day the voice of the Reidmeister will rise up into the air above JISC World and pour down like rain upon his throng and tell the complainants to:
“Shut the hell up and get on with it”
The future is foretold but none knows of its time of coming
From the First Book of Madness, chapter XV, verses 12- 29
