Tag: Houghall
Dr Bertenshaw scoops new University role
by admin on Dec.19, 2008, under Daily Splash Archive
Work seemed to be getting easier from now on
Dr Catherine Bertenshaw is pleased to announce she has recently begun a new job – she is now the North East Manager at VETNET, or to give her the full title, VETNET Lifelong Learning Network Regional Manager (North East & Yorkshire), School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.
She is very pleased to have the new job although she admits she will miss her special relationship with the famously temperamental photocopier at Houghall College. When asked to comment on what exactly the new job involved she looked slightly shifty and pretended to choke on her cocktail.
“I’m not exactly sure,” she eventually revealed, “but whatever it is, it can’t be any worse than being chased around Houghall by the lawnmower man.”
When asked if she will miss anything else about her old job she pointed out “one thing that is definitely better in real academia is the creative use of coarse language. You haven’t heard swearing until you have sat in a meeting of the AFRD steering group.” Dr Bertenshaw explained that only 12 months earlier she had been hauled before a disciplinary panel at Houghall merely for “gently expressing my opinion on the college’s disastrously run IT system to a junior IT worker.”
Happily the recipient of her impromptu IT lecture has now recovered with the aid of expert counselling and can now hear the word “fuck” without bursting into tears.
