Science:
A report released yesterday from the European Universities
Association (EUA) ranked universities in the UK high in all
measures of autonomy. This is the EUA's second report on
university autonomy and the first one in which university
systems were ranked in four different
areas—organizational, financial, staffing, and academic
autonomy. While it's not certain how strongly a university's
autonomy is tied to its quality, some aspects, such as the
ability to attract outside funding, are directly linked with
financial autonomy. Report author Thomas Estermann expects the
report to be provocative rather than prescriptive and to
provide a means of comparison across countries.
