While many institutions are actively and successfully recruiting women and minority students into the underrepresented fields of science, mathematics, and engineering, the faculty and financial resources to train adequate numbers of students must be found. Severe shortages already exist in some professions. (MSE)

Rapid growth of non-state colleges and universities in Eastern Europe has been fueled by strong demand for education and a limited number of student places at state universities, which, until recently, had a monopoly on higher education in the region. While some institutions are shoddy profit-making ventures, others are models of innovation. (MSE)

While research universities house many distinguished scholars and serve an important role, there is a significant mismatch between the doctoral students they produce and the kinds of jobs available for new faculty, for which the students are presumably being groomed. Over-reliance on the research model of doctoral education inhibits the…

Students are competing for places in Peru's 56 universities. To help meet growing demand, four new private universities have opened in the past year and 50 others are seeking accreditation. Proposed legislation will make fund raising easier for new institutions. New institutions are modern, vocationally oriented, and relatively expensive, but will…