Beginning of the silly season: Undergraduate results came out 3 weeks ago so you can guarantee that these days the students who come asking "What are my results?" are not the bright bunnies who cared sufficiently about their results to not take holiday during this critical period! Of course, now that the "bright bunny rush" is over, all the people whose responsibility it is to give out results have taken leave!! So the "not-so-bright bunnies" are left wandering the corridoors, howling mournfully at the empty offices and asking dumb questions of those of us (dumb enough?) not to be on holiday!!!

However it doesn't help that despite the lecturers being asked to submit resit coursework/exam scripts last week the students won't receive their letters from the University until 2 weeks later (and don't get me started on why it's necessary for lecturers to photocopy the scripts for each and every resitting student! Grrrr....)

So feel sorry for the unfortunate "not-completely-dumb bunny" cohort -- those students who failed, took holiday and now are desperate to find out whether or not they have to revise over the summer will have to wait for their letters detailing their resit tasks, which they'll receive barely 3 weeks before the resit exams are due to be held! Not a fun summer for those that fail their modules...

(And why, you may ask, is it just the beginning? Because the A-Level results come out in less than 3 weeks and then it'll be "all hands on deck!" to man the "clearing hotlines" (aka the dredgelines because "it's student numbers, not quality, that counts"!)