Khairul Abidin Nuar - My World

• Universities are not simply a mechanism for churning out a handful of elites and perpetuating social inequality but should be capable of empowering and equipping the largest possible number of individuals with the fullest set of tools she or he will need to become well-rounded participants in our social democracy and fully-functioning economic units in that society.
• They must also stand out – as many systems do today – as centres of world-leading, independent research, capable of preserving, developing and perhaps even expanding our valuable cultural and scientific legacy for generations to come.
• But seeking excellence in research should never be allowed to become an excuse for underperformance in education. Indeed, in the end both objectives require each other to be succes
• As the world moves towards a society where human capital is the largest and most basic determinant of a country’s economic success, the strongest systems are those which not only do the best job of educating the broadest number of their own citizens for the economic and social challenges we will face, but that themselves become magnets for the world’s talent.
• Universities should not only provide opportunity to the local country or community that sustains it, they must also attract the best and the brightest from around the globe

Source: ScienceBusiness