How did AC Grayling do it? No, not become the most heckled academic in Britain. Set up a private university charging top dollar for a degree you can get for half the price just down the road.
Harriet Swain has a 10-point plan for anyone who reckons there's a bob to be made in this higher education lark. Here's her advice on deciding which subjects to teach:
"Don't bother with science. It involves lots of expensive equipment and your professors would have to spend time with students in the lab, rather than just pop in for the odd lecture. It also has much less publicity power - few people in the media studied it and even fewer can envisage their dyscalculic kids in a lab coat. Also, Brian Cox is likely to be too busy. Science literacy is a good compromise and might help students understand In Our Time."
Big education story today will be the ATL and NUT votes on whether to strike over pension changes - watch out for that on the website. UCU general secretary Sally Hunt blogs in the New Statesman about why her union has opted to strike:
"Educators do not like taking strike action. Our chosen vocation is to change lives and transform life chances and we are unlikely militants. So the prospect of 800,000 teachers in schools, colleges and universities being on strike should concentrate government minds on resolving the problem rather than seeking to shoot the messenger."
More education news from the Guardian
• Now that they're consumers in a marketplace, students have been doing a lot more complaining. A third more, to be precise, bringing the total number of gripes to a record 1,341. Two universities have been singled out in an Independent Adjudicator's report for breaking rules on dealing with complaints - Sue Littlemore finds out what Southampton and Westminster did wrong.
• Sir Michael Barber was New Labour's number cruncher. Now he's turned his back on the UK - "Broadly, Gove is doing the right thing" - and gone global. He tells Peter Wilby what he hopes to get out of advising Pearson.
• It's five years since a huge fanfare heralded the merger of two lecturers' unions to form the UCU. How well has it lived up to its promises? Janet Murray talks to the key players.
• James Dyson was serious when he said he wanted to save design and technology. He's setting up a network of DT ambassadors to build the subject's profile in schools. And on the Guardian Teacher Network: a lesson from the Dyson foundation's award-winning teacher Steven Parkinson that gets KS3 students to think critically about product design.
• Teenagers are leaving school without the maths knowledge they need for university or the workplace, the influential Advisory Committee on Maths Education says. Maths A-level and other post-16 qualifications are not stretching pupils enough for many university courses.
Guardian views
Fiona Millar Is research being moulded to come up with a Tory-friendly idea of "innate" intelligence?
Mark Gould Financial gloom is scaring students off London Met - but we can't let such an eccentric, creative institution die.
Research revelations
• The third Billy Goat Gruff knew how to outwit a troll, but internet-users are struggling. Fear not, the Improbable Researchers have unearthed foolproof advise for sending trolls back to their smelly lairs.
• Americans love to talk up their Scottish and Irish roots (yes, we're talking about you Mr O'Bama). But they seem a lot less keen to celebrate their Englishness. Lucy Tobin discovers a research project looking into the neglected English cultural legacy in the US.
In pictures
It's the time of year art students go nuts finishing off their final-year pieces for degree shows. Frederika Whitehead has pulled together a tantalising selection of what's on offer this year.
The Guardian Professional networks
• On the higher education network: why the University of Warwick is sharing services. Jon Baldwin explains how Warwick's plan to share administrative services can benefit the sector and potentially become a national model
• And on the social enterprise network: a socially enterprising university. The University of Northampton wants to become the UK's leading university for social enterprise. Simon Denny explains how.
Education news from around the web
• A shopkeeper has decided to stand for chancellor of the University of Cambridge when the Duke of Edinburgh retires from the post at the end of June, the BBC reports. Grocer Abdul Arain has "well in excess" of the necessary 50 nominations required.
• The UK should look at the way other countries are "professionalising" teaching in higher education, says Craig Mahoney, chief executive of the Higher Education Academy, according to a THE report.
"People who are teaching students need to be properly prepared, just as nurses and engineers, airline pilots and psychologists need to be qualified before they can practise."
• The governors of Woodfield secondary school, a special school in Brent, north London, that agreed to pursue academy status in May, decided to drop the plan at a governors meeting last night, following a secret ballot in which nearly three-quarters of the teaching staff voted to oppose the academy proposal. Hank Roberts, Brent ATL secretary, called the decision "a magnificent victory".
• Unsettling celebrity pic of the day: courtesy of @JDLiteracyTrust:
"Boris and Peter Andre launching @Literacy_Trust's Literacy Champions in London."
Guardian Education Centre seminars for teachers
This half-day conference for primary school teachers will help you inspire students to read with pleasure and maintain the reading habit. Andy Stanton, author of the Mr Gum series, will be joined by Julia Eccleshare, Guardian children's books editor, and reading development experts.
Time: 1 July, 9.15-12.45.
Cost: £48, including refreshments and resources.
Insight into Journalism: investigative and features journalism
This seminar, part of our popular Insight into Journalism series, gives secondary school teachers and college tutors the chance to spend a day at the Guardian. You'll meet specialist journalists from the investigations team, find out from writers what makes a good features article and learn about commissioning, editing and interview techniques.
Time: 8 July, 9.15-4.30.
Cost: £72, including lunch and resources.
Education seminars from Guardian Professional
Distinctiveness and branding in higher education
Higher education institutions will struggle in the marketplace unless they stand out from competitors and make sense to stakeholders. The Guardian's half-day seminar in partnership with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education will explore what it takes to develop and maintain a distinctive brand that attracts students, staff and funders. Participants will hear from experts, examine case studies and have the opportunity to network with peers.
28 June, London.
Making the most of media opportunities to enhance your school's profile
Whether it's sharing good news or handling a crisis, headteachers and school management teams need to be able to handle the media in all of its forms. This one-day seminar in association with the NAHT is essential for new and aspiring heads as well as established school leaders who wish to update their knowledge. It includes a session on social media.
20 September, London.
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