ENSeveral attempts at reforming Lithuania’s higher education during last two decades were abortive. The latest one that is being implemented now by the new government is no exception. Those academics and students that were expecting serious reform were instead served with well-known neoliberal agenda of „no alternatives“. The author shows that the group that drafted present reform failed to elaborate guidelines for systematic change and offered instead a half-boiled plan of minimazing the number of exhisting institutions attempting to merge those that have hardly anything in common.