UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY COULD BOOST COMPETITION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, EUA CONFERENCE HEARS
February 1st, 2008
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE DEVELOPMENT of university autonomy in Europe is a prerequisite for getting more funds from private and public sources concluded a European University Association (EUA) two-day conference in Brussels last week. Whilst technical finance issues were dominant in the discussions by 120 education experts from 30 different countries, autonomy was a recurring issue at the conference.
Mats Ola Ottosson, director of Uppsala University, Sweden, put it bluntly: "The more legally and financially autonomous an institution is, the easier ...
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