University of Cambridge to hire ‘professor of Lego’

One of the world's best universities is planning to hire a professor – of Lego. The lucky candidate will be the head of a research department at the prestigious University of Cambridge. Officials say the role is expected to be created within the faculty of education after the university received £4 million (US$6.3 million) in donations from the Lego Foundation, reports The Telegraph.

Cambridge's general board has recommended for the Lego professorship "of play in education, development and learning" to start in October 2015. The professor will be director of the Research Centre on Play in Education, Development and Learning.

In the latest edition of university magazine The Reporter, Vice-chancellor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says "he has accepted with gratitude a benefaction of £1.5 million from the Lego Foundation, payable over three years, of which both the capital and the income may be used to support a Research Centre on Play in Education, Development and Learning within the faculty of education over the same period.” It says the Lego Foundation is also “proposing to fund a Lego professorship of play in education, development and learning with a benefaction of £2.5 million”.
Full report on The Telegraph site