Tony Blair for Harvard? Well, that's the rumour, according to First Post. The attractions for a retired Prime Minster - adoring audiences, loads of money and enough freebies to satisfy even Cherie - are obvious.
So far there's no hard evidence he is considering a post at Harvard's prestigious Kennedy School of Government but shouldn't British universities be trying to get in first?
We're used to Anthony Blair, Captain of School, but curiously we haven't thought about Professor Blair yet. His famous "education, education, education" slogan was primarily directed at schools and much of his energy has been focused on trying to refashion the school system in England.
In contrast his 50% target for young people entering higher education by the end of the decade has lapsed into an "aspiration".
Universities have done rather well on his watch, though. Even if Chancellor Gordon Brown gets most of the credit with academics because of his enthusiasm for science and the knowledge economy, it was Blair's backing for top-up fees that formed the basis for the current splurge in spending on campuses around the country. By rights there should be lots of Blair Buildings going up, but somehow one doubts it.
Will British universities be competing for Blair's services? Oxford dislikes Brown strongly enough since the Laura Spence affair - when he said it was appalling a comprehensive school student was denied a place - to offer something to his great rival. But then Oxford also denied a place to his son Euan - currently at Yale. (And Ms Spence, it will be remembered, ended up at Harvard.)
The London School of Economics, formerly run by "third way" guru Anthony Giddens, prides itself on attracting senior political figures, but Blair might feel more comfortable at Warwick, where he took Bill Clinton to demonstrate his modern touch.
But could Warwick - or any UK university - afford Professor Blair?
