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other ways that do not jeopardise slovene . these are namely to finance high quality translation to combat brain drain and to encourage academic expats to return . otherwise they fear slovenian will gradually be marginalised as a language of a subordinate class read more 09.10.2016 friday 14 october 2016 further persecution of university staff in turkey izmir almanar turkish authorities arrested 15 members of staff from ege university one of the oldest and largest universities in the country . they are suspected of links to the us based preacher fethullah gulen who is the scapegoat for july s failed military coup . some of the detainees are accused of using clandestine messaging service bylock which officials say was used by coup plotters to share secret messages and some are professors . eight of the suspects are still at large read more 01.10.2016 romanian doctoral schools under investigation bucharest agerpres romanian education minister mircea dumitru has announced that he will begin to investigate doctoral schools for intellectual theft . he added the university is not can not be nor should be an institution acting politically stressing that academic integrity is vital for the reputation of the community on an international level read more 03.10.2016 danish universities fear political control copenhagen berlingske following the danish education ministry s report recommending ministry involvement in board and director appointment universities have come out in strong opposition . anders bjarklev chairman of the board of the university of copenhagen called it a showdown with 500 years of tradition to keep universities at an arms length from the political level read more 04.10.2016 thursday 13 october 2016 bulgarian brain drain sofia utroruse a major obstacle to better economic growth is the lack of human resources said vasil velev chairman of the association of industrial capital in bulgaria on a btv discussion about keeping students in the country after graduation . emil stoimenov a medical student claimed that as many as half of his classmates were planning on leaving bulgaria after graduation . but until conditions on the labour market improve he does not see forcing students to stay in bulgaria as a viable option read more 4.10.16 hungarian academics protest immigration referendum budapest nepszava in the run up to last weekend s referendum in hungary over 140 academics signed a declaration condemning it as meaningless unconstitutional and inhumane . the question asked if the people wanted the eu to be able to set migrant quotas without approval of the national assembly . the vast majority voted against eu quotas but turnout was too low to validate the referendum read more 01.10.2016 croatia controversial dean suspended zagreb vijesti vlatko previ i the stubborn dean of the faculty of philosophy at the university of zagreb has been suspended in an almost unanimous decision by the university senate . but students have refused to 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