A follow up of the previous post. It is of course highly laudable to create prestigeous institutes that do good science. However turning these into "deemed" universities as the main solution to producing high quality scientists would be quite unreasonable. It is true that worldwide there are per country just a few very highly ranked places of learning. They are by the way generally speaking universities. Upholding and expanding universities & colleges (why should there be this disticnction) stimulating these to be not be simply teaching centers, but high quality research centers seems to be the only way to get massive numbers of students to get access to education via research and develop high tech skills. As always the foundation of anything has a paramount importance and the biggest effort should be to provide high quality undergraduate (first three/four years, or whatever it is) education, and that in a place where the teachers are actively involved in frontier research. It is for a researcher her foundation to persue further learning, which is lifelong and not limited to the "graduate" program". The latter is more a professional training, where you learn something, but might well do something entirely different if your founding education was right. In very large countries, much bigger than Europe it is entirely normal to expect that there would be a large number of universities persuing high class teaching and high class research. This as a means to educate via research also.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:52:02 +0000
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