University administrations are booming…
An interesting read! Björn Brembs and Axel Brennike analyze how administration and bureaucracy grew in the past decades at german universities.
The full article was published in a very reknown newspaper (FAZ) – read it here (German version). See also the Blog by Björn Brembs with an english version and additional details/comments.
And it appears that nobody cares and it will get worse:
http://www.nature.com/news/germany-s-researchers-welcome-5-billion-funding-boost-1.17353