As a former lecturer on constitutional law, Obama knows this stuff all too well.
He was a former lecturer in the school of chemical and life sciences at Greenwich university, and switched to a part-time position in order to finish his MSc in applied statistics.
"It's an honour for the country and of course it does give some indication of how South African literature has developed, particularly under the difficult conditions we have [had]." Coetzee, a former lecturer at the University of Cape Town, had been tipped to win a Nobel after two Booker prizes in 1983 and 1999 for the Life and Times of Michael K and Disgrace.
But Colin Davies, a former lecturer in architecture and author of The Prefabricated House, pours cold water on the excitement.
"Any hard evidence is gold dust," says Shehzana Mamujee of Newcastle University and a former lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe, the modern-day rebuild of the original theatre.
His words underlined the fears of Andrea Phillips, a former lecturer at Goldsmiths College who works at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
"The music still resonates today, the people in Libya and Tunisia could be singing the Marley tunes," says Tony Sewell, a former lecturer at Leeds University who is director of Generating Genius, a British and Jamaican charity for boys' education.
Julian Myerscough, a former lecturer in criminal law at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, absconded from Ipswich crown court on the afternoon of Wednesday 30 September.
Originally, 20 students had been accepted in the program, chosen by Shelley Fox, the director of the M.F.A. program and a former lecturer from Central Saint Martins.
A former lecturer at Sandwell College, he says he is not taking properties from the hands of private buyers.
