Akademiska synpunkter

I think the main problem with universities today is that academia is a network while universities are increasingly acting like companies (e.g. in the USA), or government agencies (e.g. in the Nordics). Academia is driven by individual researchers and research groups cooperating and exchanging thoughts in a network. Universities used to be collegiate structures, i.e. basically run by committees of the more important academics, as a support structure for their research and education activities. Now they are run by bureaucracies as if they were more traditional types of hierarchical organizations. Either this is for profit, or intended to implement government policy (or worse, ideology), which is directly the opposite to the logic of the research organization.