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PRACTICAL INFORMATION  Implementation of the Bologna Declaration: The Czech Republic and Hungary by Robert Sedgwick Until 1989, when the communist Eastern Bloc collapsed, the educational systems in former Czechoslovakia and Hungary were based largely on the Soviet model of higher education. Following independence, new laws were passed in both counties that ended the state monopoly on education, promoted the liberalization of curricula, and adopted an Anglo-American system of degrees.  REGIONAL NEWS  Click below on the region of the country you wish to go.    African Women Do Not Receive Equal Access to Education Women in sub-Saharan Africa are far from winning the battle for equal access to higher education. The main reason cited is the failure to implement policies at the primary level. The average literacy rate for women remains 49.6 percent, compared with 66 percent for men. According to a report by the Forum for African Women Educationalists, the gender imbalance in primary schools has not changed in 20 years. The report says the main problem is the poor rate of transition among girls from primary to secondary school. Read full story  FEATURE  When the Dust Has Finally Cleared … by Robert Sedgwick On Sept. 11, my colleagues and I watched in utter horror and disbelief from our office windows as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center burned, and then crashed to the ground after being attacked by suicide hijackers. I actually saw the first plane fly over my head and slam into the north tower as I was walking to work that grim Tuesday morning.