How can you create world-class universities if your academics are civil servants trapped in a national labour market?
But policymakers have also begun to realise that world-class universities produce a disproportionately large share of cutting-edge ideas and research.
The editor of the survey, Phil Baty, said uncertainty in education in England could see world-class universities collapse into global mediocrity.
And the Chinese are hard at work trying to build world-class universities.
Two world-class universities, Stanford and Berkeley, seeped in a balance of engineering and the humanities set the original stage out of which successful innovation emerged.
At most of these world-class universities admission is still very selective.
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And how can you have world-class universities without proper resources?
His demand that world-class universities ignore hip hop is an odd cry for remedial provincialism: a return to a climate of academic curiosity where only a narrow range of subjects could be legitimately pursued.
World-class universities can also produce outsize economic benefits.
The truth is, we have everything we need to compete: bold entrepreneurs, bright new ideas, and world-class colleges and universities.
Today, too many kids in this city are living just a few El stops, sometimes even just a few blocks, from shiny skyscrapers and leafy parks and world-class museums and universities, yet all of that might as well be in a different state, even in a different continent.
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Both offer a myriad of opportunities and positives as the homes of financial centers, world-class culture, leading universities, sports teams galore and high-end restaurants.
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The oil-flush kingdom has rapidly asserted itself as a world-class intellectual mecca, courting top universities and financial institutions and muscling its way into cultural relevancy.
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This platform can transform how healthcare professionals advance patient care, how retailers deliver service experiences to consumers, or how universities deliver world-class education to their students.
With a critical mass of well-educated university students at three universities, Quebec is a great environment to attract world-class engineering talent.
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None of the Chinese universities is particularly famous, but Novartis believes their standards are already world-class.
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