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The Syllabus She Built
Ashgrove University sits in Marchmont on a parkland campus built in 1974 and repaired ever since.
- ~233 min (estimated)
- 51349 words
- 79 scenes
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
24 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
On the fourth floor of the Rutherford Building the School of Arts and Humanities runs a module called MC-2140 *Media and the City*, twenty-four second-year students, forty contact hours, and one summative essay worth sixty per cent of the mark. Two people run it. Dr Callum Frayne, 43, is the reader and has taught here for six years. Nell Ahearne, 36, is the senior lecturer who wrote the syllabus, chose every item on the reading list, and is the module lead. They have been sleeping together since the summer. Two terms, Thursdays mostly, forty minutes at a time, in his office at 4. 14 with the door shut and the corridor outside them. A department that knows a thing is a department that has agreed not to know it. The tea rota skips Thursday. Nobody books 4. 14 on a Thursday. Marisha Colquhoun, who has administered the school for six years, leaves a biscuit tin outside the door at ten past f
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- An academic misconduct complaint upheld on procedural grounds
- A career suspended and a fitness to practise referral
- A first-year postgraduate research placement lost by a young man
- A plagiarism finding against a student who was never told
- Deliberate omission from a disclosure document
- Institutional silence and small-kindedness as concealment
- An adult sexual relationship between colleagues, written explicitly
- Financial strain and family debt
- Hard moral choices that no option resolves
Cast
- N Nell Ahearne Senior Lecturer, module lead of MC-2140, viewpoint character, and the only person who can read the marking log no portrait yet
- D Dr Callum Frayne Reader in Cultural Studies, the other co-tutor, the first marker, and the man whose initials are on the change no portrait yet
- I Idris Farrow Second-year, mature student, complainant, and the person the book is about no portrait yet
- P Prof Isolde Krantz Head of the School of Arts and Humanities and chair of the complaint panel no portrait yet
- M Marisha Colquhoun Department administrator, and the person who has been running a rota since May no portrait yet
- D Dr Sunil Vaghela Deputy module lead and the second marker recorded as concurring at 11:43 no portrait yet
- D Dr Amrit Sandhu Academic Complaints Officer and investigating officer on SAC-26-114 no portrait yet
- R Rhodri Prys Third-year, author of the module evaluation, and the undergraduate asked to hold a career in his memory no portrait yet