VILNIUS - Lithuanians are proud that Vilnius University, founded in 1579, is the oldest in the Baltic states and was created two centuries before Russia established a university of its own. However, higher education not only inspires pride but causes problems.The founder of Vilnius University, the Hungarian nobleman Stephen Batory, elected king of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth by the Parliament four centuries ago, might have guessed today's Lithuanian Parliament would have its own problems with higher education.But some of the problems encountered by students today - namely, being forc...
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