In today’s politicised world, governments intervene in university life for their own political purposes, seeing academic institutions as useful tools without regard to the norms of academe, or fearing that an independent and critical academe may threaten authoritarian tendencies. Contemporary politicisation is different from the traditional reasons for government involvement in higher education and centres around fiscal problems, policies to expand access or a variety of academic purposes. Of course, politics has always influenced university-state relations, with governments ‘steering’ policies to reflect political trends and state priorities, but in general respecting autonomy and academic freedom.
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