"This Higher Education Leaders' Forum has been extraordinarily informative and stimulating.
For those of us coming from other countries and visiting Nazarbayev University for the first
time, it has been educational in the best sense. Particularly memorable for me have been the
following:..." - ...
"The biggest problem, we have to conclude, lies in defining success. Success is not quantitative but qualitative. For example, a successful faculty is not one that publishes a lot, but one that contributes assertively to the advancement of knowledge; not one that teaches a lot, but one that teaches well. Nor should a university be judged on reputation and popularity: the pursuit of university ratings may have made some universities better, but it has made too many the same. The measures that we use continue to f a l l well short of the ideal" - ..