A real coup for The University of Central England in last month's Shakespeare lecture. To offer a biting analysis of the failings of British management, they secured as speaker Sir Alistair Morton, co-chairman of that impeccable model for commercial success, Eurotunnel.
A man with vision Sir Stewart Sutherland, Edinburgh University's principal, given the task of outlining his vision for Scottish higher education at this week's Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer conference in Edinburgh, wistfully remembered the vision presented 30 years ago by Clark Kerr, president of the University of California: "Sex for the undergraduates, football for the alums, and parking for the faculty."