There is no support for students, and lecturers are parachuted in to teach their courses and leave.
The increasing numbers of part-time staff—and, worse still, agency staff—have meant that staff have been parachuted in just to lecture.
Such people were parachuted in over civil servants, further adding to their insecurities about their career prospects.
Therefore, the chairman will not be an individual, as it were, parachuted in to some local police authority in order to run it.
I have been told that people might be injured in trying to collect supplies as they are parachuted.
Coming here is like being parachuted into the desert.
They will not be parachuted in, and will not be established where there are surplus places and where they would damage other schools' intake.
It would be disingenuous to suggest that anybody is parachuted at the last moment without having gone through that process, as that is not happening.
