March 2, 2007
Guru well remembers his student days, even if the memories have a slightly hazy edge. All those extra-curricular activities took their toll on the mind, the body and the studying.
Many a time, Guru (though strictly speaking, he was still an under-Guru at this stage) found himself sneaking into the faculty at 8.59am to deliver the essay that was technically due the previous day, safe in the knowledge that his tutor would assume it had been popped into the pigeon hole before the midnight deadline.
And Guru is glad to see that little has changed - that the last minute is still the most productive 60 seconds.
As avid Personnel Today readers will know, the publication has teamed up with Henley Management College to offer an £18,000 bursary to study for the newly launched MSc in Advanced HR Management.
Applicants were asked to submit a 1,000-word essay on the following topic:
Based on your own experience and wider reading, what are the key skills for the HR practitioner of the future?
The swots' entries arrived well in advance of deadline day, including a thought piece from the Financial Times' own Richard Donkin. But the bulk of the dissertations arrived at the 11th hour - quite literally.
The final one was attached to an e-mail with the time stamp: 11.34pm. Now that's a proper student.
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