Sheltered accommodation

Here's another chance for my senior media readers to nab an Oxbridge College residency. The Warden-ship of New College, Oxford falls vacant in September 2016, and the recruitment process for a successor to Professor Sir Curtis Price KBE requires applications by 16th January 2015.

There could be an interesting alumni field - Ian Katz, Michael Crick, Angus Deayton, Rachel Johnson and Rick Stein, for example.

The salary is c£100k, but you also get a part-time PA and two full-time housekeeping staff, plus the run of the Lodgings, valued at £20k pa for tax purposes.

The headhunters are Egon Zehnder (who helped Lord Patten identify George Entwistle when at the BBC). The contact is Mark Byford - no, not that one.