finance
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If you want to observe what happens when a modern European state decides to drop the pretense of the “knowledge economy” and run higher education like a 19th-century meatpacking plant, look at the Netherlands. Over the past year, Dutch campuses have been engulfed in open revolt. Tens of thousands of students and faculty poured onto…
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If you happen to take a stroll through the quad of almost any British university right now, you might notice an odd chill in the air. It’s not just the damp English weather. It’s the distinct smell of an entire national tertiary education sector quietly burning its own furniture to keep the central heating on.…