Take a seat and pour yourself a stiff drink, because – in an event that feels as rare as Halley’s Comet passing – men are actually set to benefit from an equality programme.

Joyously, the enlightened sorts at Coventry University are tackling the paucity of men in nursing by launching a new boys-only bursary to coax men into the profession.

Men account for just 10 per cent of the total nursing students at UK universities. Last year, 2,800 men were accepted onto a course, compared with 26,000 women.

Indeed, nursing has the biggest gender gap of all courses, and it has grown by almost 20 per cent since 2012.

So with a supreme application of politically-correct-free logic, Coventry is launching a fund of £30,000 to help 10 men in subjects where they are grossly under-represented, including nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and midwifery.

Funded by the National Express Foundation Group, – yes, the coach people – the bursary will give 10 men £1,000 in each year of their degree.

While we are well used to a tsunami of government-backed, ticker-tape, positive action programmes to encourage women into 'male' areas such as STEM and engineering, this is believed to be a UK-first for men.