{"id":6739,"date":"2016-08-09T05:36:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T05:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2016-08-09T05:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T05:36:28","slug":"fen-5-the-legacy-of-henry-wilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/08\/09\/fen-5-the-legacy-of-henry-wilt\/","title":{"rendered":"FEN 5 \u2013 The legacy of Henry Wilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started off the week noting that I was in thrall to the astonishing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=6733&amp;action=edit\">John Lilburne<\/a>. \u00a0Another hero, albeit of a very different kind, is <em>Henry Wilt<\/em>. \u00a0Now, it's difficult being in the Fens and not to think of Wilt, that oppressed everyman struggling against the world, his wife, and the management of Fenland College of Arts and Technology where he has worked for ten years\u00a0as an assistant lecturer (grade 2) in the Liberal Studies department \"teaching classes of Gasfitters, Plasterers, Bricklayers and Plumbers\" (and Butchers). \u00a0His remit at Fenland is\u00a0to help to civilise youth on day-release apprenticeships. \u00a0The syllabus, gifted to the likes of Fenland by an out-of-touch left-liberal elite, demands that <em>Lord of the Flies, Candide, Sons and Lovers,\u00a0<\/em>etc\u00a0are the vehicles to achieve this. \u00a0Madness, of course, but Wilt\u00a0is stuck with it, along\u00a0with the eponymous (and egregious) class of would-be butchers that is <em>Meat One<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Tom Sharpe\u00a0in 1976, I particularly like\u00a0the satire around Fenland\u00a0College's ambition to be a Polytechnic \u2013 no doubt it would\u00a0now be a University had it really existed. \u00a0I thought Sharpe captured very acutely the existential dilemmas of being an FE lecturer caught in the jaws of the student - management vice.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds just like university lecturers today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started off the week noting that I was in thrall to the astonishing\u00a0John Lilburne. \u00a0Another hero, albeit of a very different kind, is Henry Wilt. \u00a0Now, it's difficult being in the Fens and not to think of Wilt, that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}