In contrast, mergers between a large comprehensive university and much smaller universities have a positive impact on overall publications.
And then you can find institutions, both in Spain and in Germany, that are very recognized and very established, where maybe you do not have much freedom, and much smaller universities that do not have this established reputation but that are much more flexible and help much more the researcher to do the work.
"We're much smaller than a university, but we have a lot of the same disciplines, because all of those things matter when you're trying to provide decision-makers with insights into complex issues," says Porter.
The argument for fees has always been that they provide the funding to allow more young people to go to university - and that a much smaller proportion went to university when there were no fees.
When Nigel Thrift, vice chancellor of the University of Warwick in Britain, suggested that there was only room for 50 leading research universities in the world, Mr. Van Zandt disagreed with him as well, suggesting that "a much smaller number" of research universities could expect to survive the combined pressures of shrinking public subsidy and growing global mobility.
Labour's former education minister, Lord Adonis, who has pushed the importance of raising the quality of teaching, has also argued that teacher training courses should be concentrated in a much smaller number of leading universities, with high entry requirements.
3 13 On a much smaller scale, three UK universities developed foundation programmes, access to which is restricted to students with specific demographics characteristic of population groups traditionally under-represented in medicine.
Even though the fees are high, they only represent a fifth of Harvard's operating revenue, a much smaller proportion than a university such as Leicester.
On the contrary, W. Macedonia (Bakouros 2009) only recently experienced the establishment of a university (much smaller than the ones in Crete) and a satellite research institute with a handful of researchers.
She went on to open the Percy Gee building at the University of Leicester - the university was much smaller and then had fewer than 1,000 students.
As professor Sir David Watson points out in his recent paper for the Higher Education Policy Institute: "In the United States, Andrew Delbanco concludes that the quality gap between private and public universities is much smaller than the gap in reputation.
