Dear all,

I am delighted to announce that as from 1 September Emma Shercliff will become Managing Director of Macmillan English Campus (MEC). Peter Mothersole, who has managed MEC since Ian Johnstone left will continue to work with the Division during the present intensive development phase, which will show a considerable expansion of the activities of both the MEC and onestopenglish.

Emma joined Macmillan as a graduate recruit in 1997 and worked in Southern Europe, Latin America, and Australia as well as in the UK. She temporarily abandoned us for a stretch of unpaid leave in Teheran where she helped us with Palgrave Macmillan sales and at one point joined Hodder but saw the light and returned to become Sales and Marketing Director of MEC (and onestopenglish) a year ago and is currently advertising for her successor in that post.

Please join me in wishing Emma all the very best in her new position and wishing the whole MEC team a bright future.

Richard Charkin

The technofrustration derived from the first line 'Dear All'. Who is all? Where does all live? Is anyone in all who should not be in all? How does one construct the list? How does one keep it up to date (my inbox was flooded with bouncebacks - return to sender, address unknown, no such number, no such home - for full lyrics click here). The no doubt ineffective solution involved four people, several coffees, a map of the world, a speaker phone and several hot towels.

But it was all worth it to celebrate the growing success of the Macmillan English Campus under Peter Mothersole's brilliant leadership and his ability to nurture top managerial talent. Peter held many senior jobs at Oxford University Press all of which he managed successfully and he left them last year. OUP's loss is Macmillan's gain.