The Gryphon Clerks’ College is a highly respected institution already, even though it’s only been established for a short time.

Curriculum at the Clerks’ College:

• Communication – includes report writing, instructional writing.
• Negotiation
• Administration – project management, form design, budgeting, office systems and procedures, analysing and creating new processes and procedures.
• Mind – includes understanding people’s “buttons”
• Creative Response – how to improvise a good outcome, strategy, tactics, creative thinking, generating new ideas. In balance with Administration.
• Leadership
• Law and Government
• World Knowledge – science, anthro, sociology, geography, history

Instructors include:

Mercy: iron-haired, tendency to pace and gesture, teaches Administration and Creative Response.
Joy: fiftyish, tall, practical shoes; her office is just this side of chaotic, with a desk covered in papers but a clear floor and neatly filed rows of folders. Capable of great expressionlessness.
(Neither of these characters have appeared; they were in earlier drafts, but got cut.)