Queen Victoria

Spare a thought for New Zealand's Victoria university. For years now, this Kiwi institution of higher learning has been pulling out all the stops to rid ...

In the United States, there’s Cornell university in upstate New York, which is one of the eight members of the venerable Ivy League, and Cornell college in Iowa, which most certainly is not. Let’s hear it for the University of Jacinda. Come to think of it, five of the colleges at Oxford — the Oxford, that is — also happen to have identical names to ones at Cambridge. It wants to be known as university of Wellington, after the capital city in which most of its 22,000 students live. The same goes for some of its new signage. The death of Queen Elizabeth — and the tidal wave of warm Antipodean feel it has brought about — can only have thrown yet another spanner in the works.