A Reminder to Vote for Wyn Evans as Chancellor of Cambridge University
Here’s a message for Alumni of Cambridge University!
Tomorrow (18th July) is the last day registered electors can vote online for Prof. Wyn Evans as Chancellor of the University. If you’ve registered then please don’t forget to vote! You have until 5pm tomorrow.
Here’s a post outlining the reasons why you should vote for Wyn.
In-person voting in Cambridge has already closed.
The word on the street in Cambridge is that the election will be won by Lord Browne. The Masters of many of the richest Colleges (Trinity, St Johns) have come out in his favour despite his tarnished reputation. The likelihood that the post of Chancellor of the University of Cambridge will be filled by someone so eminently unsuitable has prompted an open letter by academics (any academic can sign, not just Cambridge).
Why anyone would think that Lord Browne is an appropriate choice is completely beyond me. The letter clearly identifies the main reason why he would be a terrible choice; he is one of the key individuals associated with ushering in the present funding regime, which has led to students graduating with huge debts and many UK universities currently facing financial ruin.
Update: Unfortunately, Wyn didn’t win. Lord Browne didn’t either. The new Chancellor of Cambridge University is Chris Smith (currently Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge). It seems the electorate went with the tradition of electing a political has-been.
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In the Dark 
July 18, 2025 at 5:02 pm
I find the idea of graduates voting in a university election intriguing. It’s a connection with the old university that’s so far from my own experience.
The institution where I studied for my first degree used to send me an alumus magazine and letters begging for money. It began telephoning me asking for money. It was such a nuisance that I made sure I did not notify it of the change of address when I moved house.
The institution where I worked for my PhD did not communicate with me after I left and did not treat me as an alumnus.
So, graduates voting in a university election is a strange concept to me.
July 18, 2025 at 8:53 pm
It is strange. I tried to explain to some Irish students the other day how my BA magically become an MA, something else strange that happens to Cambridge graduates.
Ireland is not without strange things either. Graduates of Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland can directly elect members of the Seanad Éireann, something ordinary citizens can’t.
July 18, 2025 at 9:48 pm
I didn’t know that Ireland still had special parliamentary representation for graduates. The system existed for the House of Commons at the time Ireland escaped, but I had assumed that Ireland had not replicated the system for the Irish Parliament. It’s even stranger that the system still persists.
The upgrading of BAs to MAs for graduates of the posh universities for no extra work or study is bizarre.
July 18, 2025 at 9:50 pm
It’s only for the Seanad not the Dáil but it is nevertheless strange.
July 18, 2025 at 7:45 pm
When is the result announced?
July 18, 2025 at 8:12 pm
I’ve heard next Wednesday, 23rd July
July 23, 2025 at 5:22 pm
Unfortunately it’s a no-Wyn situation.
July 23, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Another nonentity, and from memory of his visit to farmers in flooded Somerset last decade a coward too.