10-04-2016, 02:15 AM
(09-22-2016, 11:39 PM)stevebowers Wrote: 61 - Despite intense protests from proponents of independent academia, the EU Parliament decides on a "unified and quality controlled" university standard. The brain drain to the US and emerging academic free states like Peru and New Zealand intensifies.
I think this one is derived from Ben Higginbottom's article on the Academion Island free state
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b04a72e80982
I'm not quite sure what Ben was intending, but this article probably needs amending in the light of Brexit. I think he intended the Free Island State movement to be a reaction against EU bureaucracy, but there may be other routes open now.
This one has been sitting on the burner for at least a week. Does anyone have a reason to keep this? If it isn't worth discussing, its probably not worth keeping.