I intend in future years to move more, as other staff members have done, towards interactive seminars. Thus freshness and variety are maintained. And I am surprised. I need to be constantly surprised and to register my surprise. In a member of teaching staff there are certain basics for which no amount of genius may compensate.
Reliability means never cancelling or rescheduling tutorials except in dire emergency.
I hardly ever go away to conferences during term-time because absence disrupts the students' work patterns, which are of paramount importance. Promptness involves quick attention to students' concerns. Not least of these is getting assignments back as soon as possible. I try never to allow more than a week to elapse between submission and return of written work. Touching on the main theme of this edition of ITL , email is an enormously exciting development and is only one of a number of recent enhancements within information technology.