Luring the best and brightest

Student quality, not university size, is non-negotiable, writes University of Otago vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne.
It is easy to forget that neither constant growth nor sheer size define the world's great universities.
Indeed, if anything, the opposite is true.
Among those that consistently make the top 10 in the prominent international rankings, the vast majority - including Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Chicago and Caltech - have a student roll either similar to or smaller than Otago's. More...