Universities are becoming too business-like, conference told

Universities are becoming too business-like, conference told: "Universities are becoming too much like businesses due to global competition for students, increased reporting requirements from governments and the ascendancy of managers more interested in the bottom line than in academic freedom, some professors say.

'Canadian universities are caught up in an international movement that makes them less autonomous than they were 25 years ago,' said William Bruneau, a University of B.C. professor emeritus and co-chairman of a recent international conference held at UBC on higher education reform"