[Irtalk] How come our cash-strapped universities can afford so many administrators? » The Spectator

[Hilton Gibson]

Remember the lesser-known bit of Parkinson’s Law — *that bureaucracy
expands in inverse proportion to its usefulness?* The number of Navy
bureaucrats rose after the first world war, Parkinson noted, just as the
number of warships went down. That’s more or less how Oxford University is
looking now — actually, how it’s looked for some time.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9547622/how-come-our-cash-strapped-universities-can-afford-so-many-administrators/
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