October 29, 2007

Russia Cracks Down on Substandard Universities, Citing Fire-Safety Issues

By Anna Nemtsova

Moscow

Russian higher-education regulators have begun a campaign to revoke the operating licenses of the many private and small state colleges that popped up in the 1990s, using fire and safety violations at their buildings as a justification.

The campaign began after a fire this month killed 10 students and injured about 50 more in a private business college in Moscow where the emergency exits were blocked because the college had rented lower floors for office space (

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