Editor's blog: Cash for honours

Well whaddya know. The first YL of the school year calls a revolution and within minutes (months) students are staging sit-ins (riots) on the streets of Londinium. Nice work comrades!

Don't suppose a front cover calling for immediate super injunctions against all royal wedding nonsense would have similar influence, would it guys? Guys?

Ok, yeah, maybe some of the credit should be saved for messrs Cam, Clegg and Browne, who are certainly doing their bit for 'revolution' in the uni stakes. Labour put in the ground work of course and the likes of Prince Div and Princess in the Middleton have been doing all this cash for BA(hons) stuff for years '“ but we are now officially entering the wheeler dealer age of 'market driven' education.

Plenty think it's a great thing. Plenty think it ain't. Which makes for a nice excuse to pit teacher against teacher in a YL smackdown special. The first bit of the mag, confusingly called Class of 2011, is dedicated to the future of the LLB '“ has law school disappeared up its own proverbials in a haze of academic beard teasing? Should all that theory stuff be a replaced by a 'just add water' practical apprenticeship? Or is university about more than getting a foot on the greasy professional pole? Is the ability to quote Auden (see page 23 to believe) just as important to YLs as the ability to quote Bingham?

Ultimately pointless debate ensues as people who have already made their mind up explain why they won't be changing it any time soon. Anyway, there's plenty other stuff to take your mind off it in the rest of the mag, so give over.

All that's left now is to make the traditional desperate plea for feedback and future feature fodder. Please, please tweet/poke/emither with all your smut, scandal and scoops. It's what makes the modern world go round, right?