February 5, 1999

Moldova Becomes First of the Former Soviet Republics to Charge Tuition

By BURTON BOLLAG

Moldova, no longer able to finance higher education exclusively from its state treasury, is now charging tuition to one-third of the students at its 15 public postsecondary institutions.

The country appears to be the first of the former Soviet republics to impose such fees, a radical departure after decades of free higher education. Under Communist rule, tuition was viewed as a bourgeois injustice, since it made wealth, and not simply

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