Question: "What's the difference between a vice chancellor and a supermarket trolley?" Answer: "A supermarket trolley has a mind of its own." Not necessarily the funniest academic joke you've heard, or even the newest - but it may say something about the sector's leaders that it was being retailed around Belfast last week by the vice chancellors themselves.
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