Man held back by red tape Researchers need to strike a new grand bargain with governments to cut back academic bureaucracy in order to free up time for the social and economic engagement increasingly demanded of universities by states, the president of the European University Association has argued.
Rolf Tarrach was speaking at the organisation’s annual conference in Zurich, which was dominated by sometimes anxious debate about universities’ role in society, the erosion of their public legitimacy and outright threats to academic freedom from governments.
“If we want to do more things for society, we can’t do it by working more […]
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