It\u2019s not widely known, but, when the UK's Vice Chancellors last marched on Whitehall, they did it to this chant:<\/p>\n
What do we want?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n More leadership development materials ...<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n When do we want it?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n At the end of the next semester.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oddly, this didn't make the press (I think Katie Price, Boris Johnson and Phillip Green were talking about a new NHS). \u00a0However, those who did hear about it must have included those organizations which, rumour has it, are now planning to put the squeeze on Hefce for additional tax-payer rhino to be tipped into the ESD \/ Quality subsidy trough for more materials which universities don't realise they need. \u00a0Hefce, having already spend $zillions on all this, and caught in a web of its own weaving, will surely find it hard to say 'No'.<\/p>\n So they will be stung for yet more cash they cannot spare, and the end product will likely just be more jargon-ridden, self-serving nonsense. \u00a0Much better were the Funding Council to buy a job lot of Bob Lutz's<\/a> Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership,<\/em> which is both witty and wise, and give one to every VC in the country.<\/p>\n