The silly names people give themselves in academia 🇬🇧

“It is natural for people to despise the very idea of Oxford and Cambridge. Elitist, snobbish, hidebound, self-satisfied, arrogant and remote, the Ancient Universities, as they conceitedly style themselves, seem to embody the irrelevant, archaic, moribund and shameful past that Britain appears to be trying so hard to shed. Oxbridge doesn't fool anybody with all that flannel about ‘meritocracy’ and ‘excellence’. Are we supposed to be impressed by the silly names they give themselves? Fellows and stewards and deans and dons and proctors and praelectors. And as for the students, or undergraduates, I beg their pompous pardons...”

 

—Stephen Fry quoted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fry_Chronicles

 

DEPARTMENT OF SILLY NAMES, UNIVERSITY OF ANYWHERE

 

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the silliest name of them all?

 

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_(education)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_(academic)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Academic_Officer (CAO)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_(education)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_(honorific)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty_(academic_staff)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecturer

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_(college)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistress_(college)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postdoctoral_researcher

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctor

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praelector

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preceptor

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(education)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provost_(education)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professoriate

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_(academia)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader_(academic_rank)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rector_(academia)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registrar_(education)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researcher

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_fellow

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholar

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward_(office)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutor

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(college)

🎓 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_ranks etc

 

Public domain portrait of Stephen Fry at Winfield House, June 2016 by the US Embassy in London w.wiki/4wrn

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