New master for Oxford

Sir Ivor Crewe, vice-chancellor of Essex University, has been elected master of University College, Oxford University. Sir Ivor steps down as vice-chancellor in October this year and will take up his new post at Oxford in October next year, replacing Lord Butler, who is retiring. Sir Ivor will spend his "gap year" between jobs as a professor in the department of government at Essex, researching and writing about British government.