If you take a bunch of bureaucrats to work with a bunch of academics across six countries and cultures, you will get a bad product that is late. Its natural that people are just incapable of working unless there is some sort of great motivation.
That was the case with our new course book (published by the EU), which was in the words of my new lecturer 'rescued' from the hands of The University of Palermo. Because of the EU's bureaucratic deadlines and the squabbling between universities, the book was never edited, so its got a lot of crap in it.
For example, on the first page, there is a sentence that beings "Since a small business is not a little big business..." Um...WTF?
Then in the back cover there is a leaflet that asks if you are having trouble reading the text in the program on the CD that comes with the book. No problem, just change the language into Italian and it will be in English. Simple, right? Or as the leaflet in the book says: "Isn't it magic?"
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