Academics in an occupied country I have been fascinated to read recently an account of what happens to universities in what had been a democratic country, which find themselves under pressure from a government that takes its orders from an unelected power based abroad. New policy objectives laid down by the new masters rapidly affected many areas of university life, and gave many academics a crisis of conscience over how they could be compatible with traditional university values. Others, however, seized the opportunity to further their careers by endorsing the policy objectives imposed from outside and transmitted by government ministers. Does this sounds like a description of English universities complying with the higher education policies of Brussels? Surely not. It's in a book, Les Savants sous l'Occupation , by Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis (Editions du Seuil, 2004), that describes what happened to universities and research institutions during the Nazi occupation ...
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