[Clyde]

When LKY step in to transform NU to NTU, it was because the standard at NU decline to such poor levels employers treated NU grads as 3rd tier below poly grads. Govt had no choice but to step in and do a clean up to up the standard ....

Without LKY stepping in it would have declined to don't know what pathetic state.

Having said that the story of the Chinese community rallyung together  to build a university with donations is still an inspiring one ...something we won't see again in modern Singapore.

You don't know history don't anyhow say OK. LKY closed down NanYang University was because of some political problem in Singapore during that time.

40 years ago , there was a Chinese Professor from Indonesia came to NUS. He told me that NanYang University was very famous in Asia. Many businessmen were from there and they were traveling to various countries in Asia to do business. Nobody knew about University of Singapore. He didn't know why our government closed NanYang U. instead of University of Singapore.