Sudoku Effect: Universities in the Vicious Circle of Bureaucracy

Stefan Kühl is a professor of sociology at Bielefeld University in Germany and works as a management consultant for businesses, administrations, ministries and government development organisations.

• ​1. Higher Education Reform and the Resultant increased Complexity – An introduction.- 2. Small Points, Great Effects – On the Introduction of a New Artificial Currency.- 3. The Sudoku Effect – On Degree Arithmetic.- 4. Unwilling Recipients of Spoon-feeding – The Unwanted Side Effects of University Reform.- 5. Escape into Control Deviation.- 6. The Bureaucratic Vicious Circle – The Intensification of the Sudoku Effect through Permanent Reforms.- 7. The Fruitless Search for the ‘Guilty’ – The Reasons why Nobody has to feel Responsible for the Effects of the Bologna Reform.- 8. What to do? Dealing with the Side Effects of the Bologna Reform.