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How to create Excellent Universities

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T he latest edition of my  book - How to create excellent Universities - is now published and available at Amazon.com. Check out the book at Amazon about the book. They have done a much better job of describing it than I can do here. The book is a necessary manual for any one involved in the creation of a new university. Without it they will miss out on all the important information that has been gathered by the author from universities all over the world and is not documented elsewhere.   The book begins with a history of universities and compares the two types of institutions where higher education leading to university degrees is offered. The remaining book is divided in six chapters that cover the need for universities, courses, infrastructure, layout, faculty and governance. All through the author takes pains to outline the factors that lead to excellence and those that lead to deviation from it.   It is essential study matter for those planning to create a new univer