On an academic's job description

A friend and colleague has just been told that as a course leader, it is his job to make sure the accountants have set up a project accounting system for a particular course event.

Over coffee, he went over his responsibilities for the course. It is now his job to;

• write the course advertisements, brochure and prospectus entry
• tell marketing where and when to place the advertisements
• respond to prospective student enquiries
• invite suitable students to interview
• interview them
• manage the course induction (across nine centres)
• co-ordinate staffing
• manage quality assurance procedures
• set the agenda for and chair course boards
• respond to any student complaints and manage that procedure
  
• run staff development sessions for colleagues in the associate centres
• liaise with the professional validating body, which includes
• re-designing the programme to comply with their new standards
• preparing the documentation for university validation
• co-ordinating that validation across all the centres
• writing new course handbooks;
• oversee the assessment procedures
• set work
• mark work
• moderate work
• liaise with external examiners
• visit centres to ensure consistency of teaching observations
  
• ensure all assessment data is entered onto the system
• check the accounting procedures and ensure the budget is balanced (although he is not trusted with authorising expenditure)
  
• attend graduation
• provide references for former students

In other words he has to do everything.

Except for one thing.

The university has decided not to run a cohort in the university itself any more.

So he doesn't get to teach on it.