I don't think any of my chemists or physicists would say that they hadn't been able to try anything they wanted to do. I maybe have put one or two restrictions on, for instance, from a budget point of view in terms of consumable booklets and things like that - wanting to go for something that's maybe semi-consumable rather than profuse amounts of paper. But, other than that, I've tried to create - and I think they would agree with me - a sort of ethos where they had a lot of ownership over the materials that they were developing. And I think, initially, there was an anxiety where they were used to maybe having a Principal Teacher who would say, "Well, I've developed this unit and I want you to teach it", whereas now they've moved away and they like having this where they have the ownership. They develop the unit and they are thinking of what comes next and how they can improve it and evaluate it, and so on. They don't have to worry about budgets. They don't have to worry about quality assurance. They can make a request for resources and if the finances are available we can look at purchasing equipment. Everybody in the faculty has been involved, for instance, in buying equipment needed to start up the faculties. Everybody's been fully involved in that. I don't know whether they feel like curriculum leaders, but they feel like they have a lot more ownership over the product than they may have had in a previous life.
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