Jan. 11th, 2007
Yesterday's great Southampton moment
Jan. 11th, 2007 01:12 pmIn a meeting discussing student drop out rates, "attrition" in Soton-lingo, someone notices that in one column we actually added not lost students.
"Oh yes, that's positive attrition!" goes the stats woman.
AAAGGGG. So the word "accretion" or even "addition" departs the bureaucrat language..
Yesterday redeemed by lovely lovely dinner courtesy of
nmg and
ias. This featured (a) viewing the 5 week old Garklet and (b) trying geranium chocolate. I leave you to decide which was more surprising :-)
"Oh yes, that's positive attrition!" goes the stats woman.
AAAGGGG. So the word "accretion" or even "addition" departs the bureaucrat language..
Yesterday redeemed by lovely lovely dinner courtesy of
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