The trouble with universities – Part II
7)The trouble with accreditation: The accreditation process turned into bureaucratic frenzy, many accreditations are based on “flying professors”. Accreditation committee, however, plays a positive role as a watchdog of university education quality. Above all, it is necessary to amend unsatisfactory ministerial regulation and increase authority of the accreditation committee so that it could grant accreditation to high-quality institutions for an indefinite period of time and also to a wider range of subjects. It would be the best, though, to keep the same strict type of accreditations for the new or lower-quality institutions. 8) Incompetence and cumbersomeness of university senates: Universities govern these elected, self-governing bodies and this system enabled to gain and preserve academic freedom and universities’ independence of politicalContinue Reading