David Colquhoun has poured scorn on a vacancy advertised by the University of Westminster for a systems biologist with an interest in "bridging the gap between Western life sciences and Chinese medicine".
Standing in front of a bustling Universities and Colleges Admissions Service call centre in Cheltenham, David Willetts is being quizzed by Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy via a live link to a London studio.