“… The state reserves the power to decide who can and cannot hand out degrees, or even who can call themselves a University. The University of Rob would soon find its letterbox full of troubling legal correspondence. This is the weakest link. One keen populist or neo-liberal politician, one piece of legislation, and it’s gone. If I ran the circus (after the Revolution, you know) I would sweep this away with the stroke of a pen, just to see what would happen. What would happen, exactly? …” (more)
[Robert Cosgrave, Tertiary21, 25 June]