TY - BOOK ID - 3519074 TI - The road to (excellent) ruin : Dutch universities, past, present and future AU - Dekker, Rudolf AU - Panchaud PY - 2015 SN - 9789082077964 9082077965 PB - Amsterdam Panchaud DB - UniCat KW - Universities and colleges KW - Colleges KW - Degree-granting institutions KW - Higher education institutions KW - Higher education providers KW - Institutions of higher education KW - Postsecondary institutions KW - Public institutions KW - Schools KW - Education, Higher UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3519074 AB - Dutch universities are striving towards excellence while theiradministrators dream of top-ranking on international listings. Dutchscholars and scientists, on the other hand, foresee that the growingbureaucracy, commercialization and excessive workloads are leadingto an abyss. Are we to believe that today’s universities in Holland arecomparable to a cookie factory? Are students like shipping containersthat should be processed as quickly as possible, as university presidentshave declared? In this book Rudolf Dekker links the incidentalproblems about cheating academics and incompetent administrators, assignaled in the press, with more fundamental processes that have takenplace over the last fi fty years, including changes in the way universitiesare structured, managed and fi nanced, the infl uence of neo-liberal ideas,the effects of digitization, and the development of a new administrativeelite in the Netherlands. ER -