Administration: Part of a lecturer's duties are a certain amount of course admin. This varies between Universities & mine seem to be one of the worst (compared to the experience of a small sample of colleagues) as lecturers are expected to

• Prepare (i.e. photocopy) duplicate copies of resit exam papers for every student,
• Man the subject-specific "clearing hotlines" in mid-August,
• Advise students of programme routes they can take based on their module failure (surely an automatable task!),

As I've moaned here before -- the Faculty's Admin Manager earns twice what I do yet admin support for lecturing staff is minimal ... as a co-worker said yesterday: We're cheaper therefore we get to do the rubbishy jobs.