Autonomy and Accountability

Increasing institutional autonomy and accountability of universities to society are two requirements considered essential to moving towards this new university model. Governments are urged to review their respective university laws so as to eliminate excessive regulations. With the objective of improving transparency of results, we propose the simplification of the evaluation systems in order to make them easier to understand by society, as well as the preparation and broad social dissemination of periodic reports on the social, economic and cultural impact of the universities.