By Patrick Masterson
Life is sweet on the younger college of Saint Chinian in sunlit south-west France. All concerned take pleasure in a cheerful time: a few educating is needed, yet learn is fullyyt non-compulsory. the scholars too are a pleased staff. For a reasonable quantity of research, which doesn't drastically encroach upon their rest time, they're guaranteed of a pretty first rate measure and a task - in all probability even a pensionable one - and feature lots of loose time to interact within the critical enterprise of placing round, ingesting espresso, enjoying pinball and fornicating.
However, this blessed scenario is below possibility. The professionals in Paris have imposed a trip from an exterior committee of foreign specialists to assemble an in depth document at the educational caliber of the collage. The chilly wind of managerial intimidation, so universal in different components of latest existence, is set to blow during the hallowed halls academia. The serpent is insinuating itself into paradise.
A comedian campus novel within the form of Malcolm Bradbury and David hotel, caliber Time at St Chinian is bound to bring up a wry smile from somebody who has come into touch with the weird international of academia, as pupil, instructor or (whisper it) administrator.
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