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Regardless of whether as individuals, we count ourselves as members of the Academic Estate or hope to become so, one thing is blindingly clear: few periods in the history of the universities in Europe, have witnessed so many changes and that across so many dimensions as has been the lot of higher education over the course of the past two decades. And, given the current situation, it is very unlikely indeed that the adaptability the Academic Estate has shown over the past half century is fated to diminish in the foreseeable future. On the contrary, if Portugal, France and Spain are still digesting the changes that legislation in 2007 introduced in both governance and evaluation of higher education (Neave & Amaral 2011, pp. 40–62; Neave 2012a, pp. 46–60) further legislation is currently being debated in France, while the introduction of new tools of varying degrees of vexatiousness — risk management being one — is under active contemplation in the United Kingdom (McClaran 2014, pp. 106–116; Rosa & Amaral 2014, pp. 13–31).
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Neave, G. (2015). The State of the Academic Estate. In: Carvalho, T., Santiago, R. (eds) Professionalism, Managerialism and Reform in Higher Education and the Health Services. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137487001_2
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