Wurzburg Conference 'University graduates: the quality/quantity dilemma' 20-22.04.1988:

The file contains preparatory correspondence, the programme and list of participants to the 33rd Bi-annual conferences, the list of working groups, the minutes of the 63th meeting of the Permanent Committee (20.04), as well as working documents (including financial reports), photographs of participants, press cuttings, and press conference statements.

Working documents include: ‘University graduates: too many or too few… in relation to what?’ by Friedrich Buttler; ‘Der Akademiker – Arbeitsmarkt bis zum Jahre 2000’ by Friedemann Stooß; ‘Welche Arbeitskrafte warden im jahre 2000 gebraucht?’ by Wolfgang Klauder; ‘The search for the optimal curriculum’ by A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan; ‘A critical age in the university world: accumulated heritage versus modern imperatives’ by Clark Kerr; ‘L’enseignement supérieur face à l’Europe de demain: qualité et/ou quantité: dilemma fundamental ou faux problème?’ by Gabriel Fragnière; Syllabus reform and new degrees in Spanish universities’ by Carlos Pajares Vales; ‘Quantity, quality and the binary policy in the United Kingdom’ by Gareth Williams; ‘Higher education in Poland: quantitative growth and policy dilemmas’ by Jan Kluczynski; ‘University graduates: quality versus quantity?’ by S. Hollinger and L. Musner; ‘L’industria italiana e l’universita’ by Giancarlo Lombardi; ‘Two million students in the year 2000: what does France want from higher education?’ by Alain Bienayme; Chroniques d’actualité de la S.E.D.E.I.S. (Tome XXXVI nº12, 15.12.1987); Notes on the work of the Group 3; Minutes of the preliminary meeting of the European University-Industry Forum of CRE and ERT (21.04.1987 in Wurzburg) and the bylaws of the Forum.

Warsaw Conference 'The university as a melting-pot of European culture' 15-18.06.1988:

The extraordinary conference held in Warsaw was organized to bring closer together the universities member of the CRE with those who were not. As extraordinary conference, it did not include a meeting of the Permanent Committee.
The file contains preparatory correspondence, the programme, the list of participants, working documents, as well as photographs of participants and press cuttings.

Working documents include: Memorandum to the ministers of education of the UNESCO European region concerning recent developments in East/West inter-university cooperation; Texts of speeches (by the Director General of UNESCO; by Carmine A. Romanzi); ‘The University as a melting-pot of European culture’ and ‘The contribution of the humanistic sciences to the shaping of social attitudes in People’s Poland’ by Jozef A. Gierowski; ‘Die Kulturelle Identität Europas und die Rolle der Universität’ by Prof. Dr. Th. Berchem; ‘Il nuovo umanesimo europeo’ by Prof. Alberto Torresani.

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