Really good piece on the current crisis.'The university system is more like a cartel than a market. Among managers, there is far more imitation than innovation'. Dimaggio and Powell's description of mimetic insitituional isomorphism in their 1983 paper 'the iron cage revisited' seems relevant here.
The Crisis in Britain’s UniversitiesThe cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrate the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?johnheathershaw.substack.com