What's in a Name?

Centring on events in one Scottish educational institution, the stories expand to cover events affecting higher education across the whole of Britain.

This intimate history of one college serves to reveal some of the dark secrets of everyday life in higher education, including

the demographic time-bomb that wasn't
political chicanery
North Sea safety and the Piper Alpha tragedy
skulduggery and brilliance
sabotage and intrigue
media machinations
quashing the quangos
educational vandalism
academia's bloodied carpets
the denigration of public service
Quality - the undemocratic essence at the heart of Britain's Establishment

It describes behaviour - good and bad - and its consequences, with understanding and compassion, and not without a little touch of irony."