How can we preserve the world's boutique universities?

By Maurits van Rooijen. There is something enormously appealing in what I would call 'boutique universities' – small-scale institutions of higher learning. A place with maybe only a few hundred students.
It might not offer the range of disciplines, the variety of choice, the critical mass needed to reach excellence in research. But the satisfaction of the students, the experience of studying, easily compensates for that. Read more...