CQU launched its “12 days of” (sort of) “Christmas” yesterday with the first YouTube clip of the year-in-review. “It would be impossible to capture all of our achievements in just 12 short videos but we’re going to try,” VC Scott Bowman says.

And Charles Darwin U announced its “12 days of Christmas” competition, with a dozen CDU reusable coffee cups to win. Day One’s prize was for the best response to “what was your proudest achievement?” Free coffee mugs! Just proves Simon Birmingham’s point about profligate spending.

CDU is not the only HE institution where the campus runneth over with cups. At Australian Catholic U researchers who provide their ORCID ID go into the draw to win a mug emblazoned with the number. Imagine that, a free mug!