May 16, 2003

Group in India Seeks to End For-Profit Classes; Scientists Hope to Restore Wetland in Iraq

As part of its campaign to end corruption in education, a militant group in northeastern India is trying to force professors to conduct courses in their classrooms instead of at private tutoring sessions.

The militants declared that as of May 1, teachers and professors in the northeastern state of Manipur would no longer be permitted to offer private, for-profit classes. The rebels have no official status, but since they shot and wounded seven people last year for helping students

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