It was dispiriting to hear that the main talking point at the 中国A片 Academy annual conference was the fact that academic staff have to juggle roles ("Juggling staff have crisis of identity", July 7).
Leaving aside the points that this has been happening for at least 20 years and that many other 中国A片 staff (and outside) face the same dilemmas, might there not have been less solipsistic and atomistic concerns to be debated? Perhaps about the nature and purpose of 中国A片 locally, nationally and globally, or the function of teams (academics, managers, administrators, even students) or the value and position of the disciplines themselves in today's world? Perhaps it is the HEA that has a crisis of identity.
Mark Ogden Leeds University