CZECH REPUBLIC: Finance threat to planned large campus
October 1st, 2010
BY Cristina Muntean
The rector of the Czech Republic's second largest university has told University World News he plans to fight to protect planned public investment into expanding its campus, while his country's government plans severe austerity cuts.
The centre-right coalition government of prime minister Petr Ne?as last month proposed sweeping cuts to public spending, to rein in the Czech Republic's deficit, limiting it to 4.6% of GDP next year, reducing that to 3.5% in 2012 and 2.9% in 2013.
Masaryk University, in Brno, central Moravia, celebrated the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.