Abstract
Universities in the Czech Republic and in Western countries face common problems. Although the number of universities, students and teachers have increased hugely over the last thirty years, one can observe uncertainty, pressure and fear at these institutions.
Jakub Jirsa argues that part of this problem is that universities are bodies foreign to contemporary popular democracies. The separation between universities as autopoietic systems and their social and political environment creates an atmosphere of mutual distrust, leading to the institutions regulating the operation of universities imposing controlling measures foreign to the working of universities, such as metrical evaluation.
In the end, however, this only increases the distrust and uncertainty mentioned above.