University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
New-Cleckit Dominie
(Normie types who find demos exhausting and embarrassing, and wish everything didn't have to be political, and _certainly_ don't have a favourite anarchist thinker, and just want to go back to knowing Nazis are bad without having to say so: sorry. Us too this time, I'm afraid. They need us.)
Friends in HE: mind you check in today with any international students you have dealings with.
(That goes double if you're the kind of person whose right to exist here isn't currently being called into question.)
The people have spoken.
Just had a lovely email exchange with an (ex-)student who turned up to my office in a lather every semester convinced they were at risk of failing.
They have just learned, to my entire lack of surprise, that they will graduate with a First. They are quite chuffed.
Some days this job is worth it.
