Higher education priorities after the French election

By Catherine Paradeise. So how can a new government build on this? It must first continue the empowerment of universities by loosening the constraints mentioned above, reducing the role of the ministry and making government’s job less about micromanaging higher education institutions. The ministry must create an enabling environment for the autonomy initiative and ensure that a legitimate system of evaluation recognises quality and can say 'what works' and 'what does not'. Read more...