Enrolment Time — the new courses… and new teachers

Some thoughts from the Head of an Engineering Department on the next few weeks' work. The coming of September brings the end of the holiday period for technical teachers, Thoughts slowly turn from the memory of seaside and country, foreign travel and Continental cuisines, to the daily journey to and from college and to canteen meals. And with the beginning of a new session comes the annual frantic rush when hundreds of prospective students flood into the colleges for what most of them refer to as “signing‐on”. Then everyone in the College from caretaker to principal knows that Enrolment is upon them again.