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)

The paper details a study supporting the hypothesis that people's opinions about nuclear arms control are influenced by their logically relevant beliefs about nuclear weapons, nuclear war, and the Soviet Union. The hypothesis should not be construed to imply that these beliefs are the only influences or the most powerful influences on arms control…

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)

The European Centre for Higher Education organized a symposium in October l977 to prepare a study on access to higher education in Europe. The purpose of the symposium was to pool suggestions for the plan and content of the proposed study and to examine possible methods of approach for certain problems that have recently arisen in the area of…

Hearings on a bill to establish a Soviet and Eastern-European research training fund are presented. The Senate bill, the Soviet-East European Research and Training Act of 1983, identifies priorities in Soviet and East European studies and seeks to develop American resources and strength in these areas. It provides fellowships for training and…

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)