There are some higher education stories that come up time and time again, and in this fledgling academic year it hasn’t taken long for Playbook to tick off some of those old chestnuts.
Pension dispute? Tick! International students’ inclusion in net migration figures? Tick! A student-heavy Sam Gyimah speech? Tick!
So what’s missing? It seems there’s been no mention of excessive pay for senior university managers. Surely some mistake?