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Reports that Swiss universities have been forced to reduce spending on faculty salaries by not replacing professors who retire which have led to a spate of student protests and concerns about a drop in quality. Wages for a full professor and associate professor; Institutions most affected by the cuts in state support; Ways that universities have responded to the cuts.

Reports that Hungary's constitutional court has struck down a government order to public higher-education institutions to reduce by 15 % the number of people they employ as a cost-cutting measure. Citing of a violation of university autonomy; Spending cuts faced by local universities; Reduction in funds for salaries; Alternative.

Reports on highlights of the 1995 meeting of the Association of European Universities in Arhus, Denmark. Efforts of higher education institutions in Europe to find money-making activities to improve their financial situation; Research for business and industry and provision of continuing education programs as the most popular ways of raising revenue.

Reports on the launching of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), a program to facilitate the transfer of academic credits among universities in Europe. Significance of the system in Europe's economic and political integration; Increase of demands for foreign study; Enthusiasm by Trans-European Exchange and Transfer Consortium members to the introduction of the system.

Focuses on the integrated college credit bank system in Ireland. Scope of the program's coverage in the country; Description of how the credit system works; Pattern of the Irish credit system adopted from the European Credit Transfer System.

Discusses professor of Vienna Technical University Rajmond Rehnicer's lectures on architecture in Prague. Development of a course for graduate architecture students focusing on the challenge of rebuilding war-torn Sarajevo; Course activities; Reactions of students on the course.

Reports on international issues in field of education. Strike by Moldova's 15 higher education institutions over government's decision on change of a history course; Attack on Algerian economics professor, Zouheir Bessa, by unidentified gunmen.

Reports the refusal by Slovakia to allow opening of headquarters by the Association of Carpathian Region Universities in its territory. Information about the Carpathian Euroregion project.

Reports on a study issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) which cautions against the effects of education cuts on higher education. Effect on the accessibility of education; Trend towards diversification in types of postsecondary institutions and education programs; Growth in number of enrollees at private universities.

Reports on the efforts of Renko Djapic, psychology professor at the University of Sarajevo, to help children traumatized by the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Help to him from the UNICEF; His contemplations on the situation.

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.

Relates the experiences of Dino Djipa, a psychology major at the University of Sarajevo, during the civil war in Bosnia & Hercegovina. Job as psychological counselor in the Ministry of Defense; Other University of Sarajevo students who have fought during the war.

Reports on the activities of philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Fund Inc. in war-torn Sarajevo in Bosnia & Hercegovina. Provision of four satellite telephone lines for educational institutions; Food provided for educators; Stipend offered to students; Other Soros-sponsored projects in the region.

Reports on the plans of the European Union to open exchanges with Eastern European schools. Sharing of costs and benefits of joint research programs; Exchange student and teacher programs; Development of compatible curricula; Advantage of scheme in not requiring major funds; Mutual recognition of degrees awarded in either venue.

Reports on the reopening of the University of Mostar after two years of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Material and psychological impact of the war on the university; Estimated cost of repairing the damage on the university.

Recounts the Budapest meeting of the Conference of European Rectors where more academic exchanges were endorsed. Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS); Advantage of CEEPUS of involving no exchange of funds, only students; Jagiellonian University's experiment in `economic decentralization'; Direct routing of state funds to faculties instead of university administration based on merit.

Focuses on the Conference of European Rectors and the pressure faced by their institution to change. Similarities of pressure to those in the United States; Conservative higher education system in European countries; Differences in the length to obtain degrees in different countries.

Focuses on the academic employment market in Europe focused on young talent, higher-education analysts as of March 8, 2002. Working conditions in British academies; Estimated number of French institutes' scientists who will retire in the next twenty years; Salary range for professors in Poland; Recruitment trends in Ireland.

Presents news briefs on finance and management in universities and colleges in the U.S. as of March 11, 2005. Information on a lawsuit filed by municipal officials against the University of California concerning its expansion plan in Berkeley; Repayment of an endowment by Iowa State University's College of Agriculture in Ames to the university; Acquisition of the Franciscan University of the Prairies in Iowa by Bridgepoint Education.

Presents news briefs related to finance and management of several U.S. colleges and universities as of June 25, 2004. Plan of Lesley College, a women's college that is part of Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to start accepting men in January 2005; Administrators dismissed by Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida; Decision of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education to place the Chicago Medical School in Illinois on probation in June 2004.

Presents updates on educational system in several countries as of March 26, 2004. Details of a report about the possibility that British undergraduates could be outnumbered by foreign students at the University of Oxford; Strike involving professors at the Bishop's University in Canada; Restriction given by U.S. authorities to medical professors and physician from travelling to Cuba to attend an international conference on brain injury.

Provides news briefs concerning higher education, as of January 31, 2003. Highlights of a report on foreign-student recruitment by U.S. colleges and government agencies; Approval by the World Bank of a loan for higher education in Colombia; Details on an automobile accident which killed several university students in Iran.

Presents news briefs related to higher education as of November 8, 2002. Plans of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal to ban coeducation in Pakistan; Incidence of killing of students by a gunman at Monash University in Australia; Arrest of scholar Kurt W. Treptow on allegations of child pornography and child molesting in Romania.

Presents news briefs relating to distance education as of October 2001. Information on a bill proposed by the Swedish government for creating a virtual university; Plans of Pakistan's Ministry of Science and Technology to establish an online university; Support of the Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals on the distance education plans of Indonesian Bangkit University Teledukasi.

Presents news briefs related to higher education for the week ended August 18, 2000. Protest against Syrian influence in Lebanon by Saint Joseph's University in Beirut; Postdoctoral fellowship offered by South Africa's University of Witwatersrand in order to prevent brain drain in the country; Plan by Russia's largest bank to offer student loans; Others.

Presents international news briefs as of February 11, 2000. Universities in Great Britain to investigate teaching applicants with a credit-reference agency; The London Business School in England and Insead in Fontainebleau, France being in the top ten schools specializing in Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs; Enrollment increase at Russian universities; South African government to allow Australia's Monash University and the Netherlands Business School to open campuses in South Africa.

Discusses how the U.S. homeland security policy affected the lives, work and civil rights of foreign college students and scholars. Changes in Iranian student Yashar Zendehdel's view of the U.S.; Failure of Cuban lecturer Carlos Alzugaray Treto to get a visa; Impact of the policy on privacy rights of library readers. INSETS: 10 Research Projects Meant to Keep You Safer;10 New Courses That Take On Terrorism.

Present three brief articles related to education outside the United States. Protests by Canadian college students calling for more financial aid and a tuition freeze; Ruling that the University of British Columbia must refund student fees because it illegally raised tuition; Reorganization of research institutions in Turkmenistan.

Presents updates on universities and colleges in the U.S. as of February 25, 2005. Increase in the number of minority students who enrolled in U.S. colleges from 1991 to 2001; Recommendation of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for meningitis vaccination of college freshmen in dormitories; Decision of administrators at Seattle Central Community College in Washington regarding military recruiters.

Presents news briefs on education in the U.S. as of February 2005. Conclusion of an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to Corinthian Colleges Inc.; Resignation of Kevin M. Ramirez as president of the Sierra Joint Community College District in California; Formation of ACT Education Solutions, a for-profit subsidiary of AC Inc. that will provide testing services for international students.

Presents news briefs on universities and colleges as of May 14, 2004. Program initiated by the University of KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa for students infected with HIV; Investigation conducted by an Australian state government in response to allegations against Keith Lloyd, the founder and president of Shafston International College in Brisbane, Queensland; Court order in Tokyo, Japan regarding the admission of a woman at Bunkyo University.

Presents world news briefs related to education as of June 22, 2001. Agreement signed by the European Union and the European Investment Bank to promote research and technical innovation; Plan of university presidents in Israel not to open for the fall semester if the government will continue its planned cut in higher education budget; Possible extension of the ethnic quota system for college admissions to private universities in Malaysia.