European universities are getting better at raising money, linking-up with industry and breaking down national barriers in the race against US and Asian schools. But tension between some aspects of academic culture and government policy threatens to hold back Europe's leap forward.
"[Cultivating] a real love of beauty...is the true aim of education," Irish dramatist Oscar Wilde wrote in his essay The Artist as Critic in 1891. But the days when Europe's universities stood unchallenged a...
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Already a member? Login hereAndrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.
Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.