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Science 6 March 1998:
Vol. 279. no. 5356, pp. 1474 - 1476
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5356.1474a
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ACADEMIC LIFE:
University Reform Seen as Key to Improving Research

Jeffrey Mervis and Dennis Normile

YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA--Throughout Southeast Asia, governments are trying to improve their systems of higher education. Such efforts include raising student quality and faculty pay, making a stronger commitment to research, and increasing revenue from outside sources, all with the goal of producing a technologically trained work force. That's a tall order for institutions that, in some cases, are quite a bit younger than the students attending them (see "Malaysia Orders Up MIT Clone" and "Carving Out a Culture of Excellence"). In addition, there is a declining interest in technical fields among top students, who instead opt for business careers.

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