Whoever came up with the marketing line The University for the Real World is an absolute genius. I say this with genuine sincerity and not just because the same institution pays me every fortnight. It's a great tag line because of the very practical nature of our courses. It works equally well in the case of incidents such as mass technical failure. "Good to know system outages happen everywhere in the real world" someone is bound to say. That someone may or may not be me on any given day. There is another occasional downside to the real world connections. It goes like this. We like to use a lot of industry professionals to deliver guest lectures. It keeps it real. It keeps it current. It keeps it relevant. But some times people with real world jobs have to do real world things which means they have to cancel last minute and there's a bit of a scramble. It happens. IT happened today. It's mildly irritating but you take the risks because the rewards are high. After all, while there are days when I think the real world is highly over-rated, the fact is this is where we live, like it or not.
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