Possible Clues:

• Academic failing to turn up entertaining prospect
• Failing opportunity, turn up to get university position
• Senior administrator's weakness, to risk register being rejected
• His job demands control of all his faculties
• University administrator, one getting a grip on unexpected rise in number on register
• University leader's bad luck when revolution returns
• Uni executive exposes corruption by Bismarck, for one
• University executive failing to turn up after accident