What are universities up to these days?

Make sure your underwear fits and is unobtrusive, consider whether your eyebrows are a distraction to others and, at all costs, avoid looking cheap.

This is the grooming advice given to new staff at Leeds Metropolitan University as part of a guide to etiquette.

The rules were set out during “manners training”, which included how to walk wearing a hat, how to select the correct cutlery during dinner and how to make polite small talk.

(Continued in The Times Online)