Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bizarre, rebellion-plagued history of the Congo since independence, Pierre Mulele authored one of the bloodier chapters. Almost five years ago, he launched a revolt against the "profiteers of independence"-the central government-and within months led his ill-equipped but relatively well-disciplined bands to control much of rich Kwilu province in the interior...
...National Council for Higher Learning and Research, consisting of students and teachers elected by their universities and prominent nonacademic leaders, will be headed by the Minister of Education. This central authority will be confined to general planning for the system, auditing the budgets of each school, and establishing national standards for degrees in such fields as medicine, law and engineering. The new law also abolishes lifetime university chairs. To stimulate closer relations with students, professors will be required to live in the towns in which they teach, eliminating the common practice of faculty commuting. Students also won one of last...
Stripping the Ministry. Faure's reform seeks to remedy those ills by stripping the central education ministry of its powers to select the presidents of each of France's present 23 universities, appoint their professors, determine their curriculums, draw up and grade exams, dictate teaching methods. Most of those powers will shift to regional and local university councils, which will include teachers, students, and even outside educational experts and political leaders...
...Central Intelligence Agency analysts are studying this year at the East Asian Research Center (EARC), and their presence has created a boiling controversy on the relationship between the government and the university and on the moral responsibilities of the scholar...
...concrete imperatives that such an analysis implies for all of us as college students soon to be unleashed on the world derive from a single central principle: One should not set out to make as much money as possible. This means that each person must learn to set an objective limit on his future needs, and not get trapped in the cycle of continually increasing wants, the second car, the country home...