Un repaso a los problemas de la universidad alemana, que no suena tan distinto de lo que tenemos por aquí…o incluso mejor en algunas cosas. Interesante también ver el gasto en educación superior en los distintos países, que pienso yo debe estar bastante relacionado con la capacidad de innovación, un elemento importante para el desarrollo económico que ha surgido bastante en los últimos días…
Me ha llamado bastante la atención este párrafo:
In the past, universities were interchangeable, and most students chose one close to home. But since the early 1990s budget cuts have encouraged them to compete and specialise. Their state paymasters began to link cash to professors’ publications and their ability to attract outside money. The government’s new “excellence initiative” goads them to differentiate still more, showering €1.9 billion on research programmes and nine “top universities” with promising “future concepts”.
¿Iremos por el mismo camino? Ojalá al menos sigamos los pasos de la Goethe:
Goethe University is in the vanguard. Last year it became a “foundation university”, loosening its ties to the state of Hesse, and expanding its freedom to hire and manage staff, and to raise money from private sources. “We can now pay competitive salaries,” says Mr Müller-Esterl. The university has hired 50 new professors, including some from foreign rivals. No longer a state agency, the university now finds it easier to raise money from private donors who want to know how it will be spent. Mr Müller-Esterl hopes the university will build its puny €125m endowment up to €5 billion-6 billion.
El caso es que las privadas ya podríamos ir por esta vía, si quisiéramos…y encima sin depender de los problemas de las tasas.
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