Outside, about three dozen students chanted, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, plutocracy has got to go," as they banged out the beat on a recycling bin and waved signs calling for increased wages for the university's employees and an end to sweatshop labor in producing university souvenirs.
"If you were to visit education as an alien and say, 'What's it for, public education?' " Sir Ken Robinson said in a 2006 talk at TED, "I think you'd have to conclude that the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors".
Producing university graduates who are well-rounded has been and will continue to be Malaysia's education forte.
More than 75percentt of all patents awarded last year to America's top ten patent-producing universities had at least one foreign-born inventor, according to a new study conducted by the Partnership For a New American Economy (PNAE).
Across the world, we are producing more university graduates than ever before.
As the new works are commissioned and produced, the universities will organize conferences, public lecture series, community programs, student playwriting projects and exhibitions.
The result is a kind of exhibition-as-essay too rarely encountered even in midsize public museums but regularly produced in universities, where intellectual adventure is privileged over box-office appeal.
The number of doctorates produced by universities in India "falls far short of meeting the need," found the report's authors, showing the importance of U.S.-trained Indian academics returning to their homeland.
- I feel that PhDs are being produced by universities without tough quality control.
Other factors seem to reside in the apparent cleavage between the scientific community and ensuing knowledge produced in universities and research centers and the schools and/or general public.
