A broad range of educational, organizational, and motivational endeavors in the scientific and technological training institutions of the USSR designed to increase the value of the research function in training specialists are outlined. (MSE)

Current efforts and emphases in higher education in Byelorussia, aimed at improving the training of technological and scientific specialists, are discussed. Among the topics of current research are curriculum development, teaching methods and management, training for professionalism and communism, teaching aids, and economic management in higher…

Relationships between the higher education institutions of the USSR and Bulgaria and their respective academies of sciences with regard to the conduct of scientific research are discussed. Focus is on the need for contact and exchange between the two kinds of institutions. (MSE)

Soviet and American scientists met at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, discussed recent research developments in a variety of disciplines and some controversial issues in science, and showed new willingness to exchange scientific information with the United States and other countries. (MSE)