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Date: 13 October 2011 18:51:25
Been reading The Wilt Inheritance by Tom Sharpe, (5 out of 100). Henry Wilt's character makes me laugh because I can put not one face to him, but several. Wilt was based in a Technical College which became a Higher Education institution, but at heart remains a FE college. There is a great bit of the book when it is pointed out they need him because he can deal with students nobody else can. They do however get him teaching Communications, (computers), because he needs to do something when they cut his liberal studies department. What goes on to happen is a facical set of adventures which whilst unbelievable are extremely funny.
As I said earlier I could put a series of faces to Wilt though. The thing that unites them with Wilt is that they may all be a little eccentric and very cynical at times but they were also able to reach students many others couldn't and they always got on with what they were doing in their own way. The truth is that all of them were in their own ways unable to adapt to the way education began to change in recent years and so found themselves on the wrong end of the increasingly marketised FE world and it's increasingly uniform style. Therefore, reading this book made me a little sad because of all the real Wilts I have known.