In an attempt to persuade the University of Huddersfield to consider a Peppa Pig Degree, I’ve been checking what other courses are available at colleges of higher education to set graduates on the road to a worthwhile career.

Glasgow University offers the History Of Lace Knitting in Shetland, which seems to be an unlikely course at an even unlikelier location.

“See you, Jimmy. Are you coming to the boozer for a pint of heavy and a Glasgow kiss?”

“No thanks, Jimmy. I think I’ll stay in and finish this doily.”

Edinburgh, on the other hand, offers something far more appealing for the typical student: a degree in brewing and distilling. This could be combined with post graduate work at Brighton Uni where they have a course in wine studies.

Melbourne and Plymouth universities both offer surfing degrees – that’s the sort of surfing done whilst wearing a wet suit. And if that is your dress code whilst searching the web, I don’t want to know about it.

You can study zombies at Baltimore, UFOs at Melbourne (again), train how to be a Jedi at Queen’s in Belfast, and David Beckham used to be on the curriculum at Staffordshire.

Two courses that might interest Huddersfield’s Chancellor, Sir Patrick Stewart, are a degree in Klingon at the University of Texas, and a Star Trek philosophy course at Georgetown University in Washington.

Couldn’t he agree to go where no-one has gone before and ask for Peppa Pig at Huddersfield?Caption: You cake a degree in Star Trek philosophy.