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Top-Down University Governance Eradicates Thinking and Good Teaching1

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The raison d’être of the university is threatened. Allegedly, the political system believes that the main objective of higher education can be reduced to the remuneration of the production of an employable workforce in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.2

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Larsen, S.N. (2015). Top-Down University Governance Eradicates Thinking and Good Teaching1. In: Westergaard, E., Wiewiura, J.S. (eds) On the Facilitation of the Academy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-974-6_7

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