The brutal repression of student protests from Amsterdam to Los Angeles is exposing failings at the heart of our universities, says Patrizia Nanz of the European University Institute
And it’s why I bring up the journal system in every one of these conversations. That happened right under academics’ noses and they all bought into it. They were manipulated and fell right into it without caring or even thinking about the wider implications let alone having the culture to act on any issues. Like the Boomer generation and the climate, previous generations of academics let the rest of us down and we’ve not got a tertiary education system in real trouble but also tied up in so many parts of the broader social institutions that it’s gonna be hard to undo. I’m no lover of tech-bro “disruptions”, but tertiary education and high level research is actually an area where the (western) world could to with a good dose of that.
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And it’s why I bring up the journal system in every one of these conversations. That happened right under academics’ noses and they all bought into it. They were manipulated and fell right into it without caring or even thinking about the wider implications let alone having the culture to act on any issues. Like the Boomer generation and the climate, previous generations of academics let the rest of us down and we’ve not got a tertiary education system in real trouble but also tied up in so many parts of the broader social institutions that it’s gonna be hard to undo. I’m no lover of tech-bro “disruptions”, but tertiary education and high level research is actually an area where the (western) world could to with a good dose of that.