The league table that no-one wanted

This is very much the lonely pup in the higher education Christmas shop. Everyone this year is doing a ranking of their most popular and most read articles of the last 12 months. And who am I to buck the trend, even though literally no-one has asked for such a list.

So, here it is, the unwanted ranking of top Registrarism articles of the year.

Obviously the top 10 is rather light on the serious stuff and has a bit of a bias towards university rankings, indeed with six league tables in the top 10 it is almost a ranking of rankings. Three of those six are real HE rankings but the other three are, I am afraid, made up ones. Indeed two of them are in fact fictional rankings of rankings. Which does therefore make this list at least partly a ranking of rankings of rankings.

Two of the other less weighty pieces in the list are items on HE jargon and a guide to sector pronunciation. Critical issues nevertheless, as I am sure you will agree.

Only two of the list are genuinely serious ones, mildly diverting essays on the importance of minute writing and killing off the essay mills.

The Top Ten Registrarism Articles of the Year, 2017

This is not that exciting though and I therefore would rather have a list which included some of my favourites which, sadly, readers did not enjoy as much as the other stuff listed above.