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Discusses the destruction in the 1990s and reconstruction in 2003 of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Recount of how Serbian nationalists burned down the library to erase memory of the country's multiethnic heritage; Challenges facing the reconstruction project; Donations received by the library after its destruction.

Reports on the threat to Macedonia's higher-education system by the conflicting demands of the Slav Macedonian majority and the ethnic Albanian minority. Issue of education control; Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje rector Tomislav Cokrevski on the quota on the number of minority students; Kosovo's underground Albanian university; Hurting of university contacts.

Offers world news briefs pertaining to higher education for June 9, 2000. Students at universities in Serbia protesting against the government order to close campuses; Student killed by police officers who opened fire on protestors at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa; Protest by ethnic Albanian students in Macedonia against a compromise plan to provide higher education in their language; Tension between ethnic groups at the University of the South Pacific in the Fijian capital Suva.

Reports on the eviction of all Muslims and Croats from the staff of the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia-Hercegovina to create an `ethnically pure' university.

Reports that ethnic-Albanian student leaders in the Serb-controlled province of Kosovo have announced plans for new demonstrations to press their demand to be educated in their own language. Protest after Serb riot police attacked peaceful demonstrators in Kosovo; Police action condemned by officials of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Details on Kosovo's political status.