At the start of the academic year Itinera takes a look at the evolution of higher education. Itinera organized a survey of the academic corps: 5000 academics, 1300 respondents. The findings of the workplace of the universities and colleges provide alarming observations.

Rudi Verheyen has collected and evaluated the increasing criticism in a recent policy note and has come to the conclusion that a number of developments, (structure) reforms and policy decisions very likely have a negative influence on the quality of Higher Education.