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• Books for Kazakh Students

  A Peace Corps volunteer in Kyzylorda is raising money for books for his students at the Kyzylzhar Secondary School. Check out his fundraising page for details and screenshots of the current textbooks they are trying to replace.

  11/06/11 • (Comments Off on Books for Kazakh Students)

• How Do you Say “Know Thyself” in Kazakh?

  Sara Nazarbayeva, the wife of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, had her first book presented the other day, a first among First Ladies in the post-Soviet space. The book is not a history of Kazakhstan or a biography or memoir, as her husband’s books have been. Instead Philosophy of Love presents her methods of self-awareness and recognition. […]

  6/26/11 • (Comments Off on How Do you Say “Know Thyself” in Kazakh?)

• Students Are Chewing More Pencils

  The national school leaving exam (ENT or NUT) will be held this year in the first ten days of June. This is the time of year when high school students get nervous as their ENT scores will determine whether they get into university, which universities they can go to, and how much government aid they […]

  5/20/11 • (Comments Off on Students Are Chewing More Pencils)

• 100% Kazakh-Speaking Generation

  Nursultan Nazarbayev, speaking Monday at the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, expressed the hope that the new generation of schoolchildren will be 100% Kazakh speaking: We would like 100% of those who will start learning Kazakh language in the first class to be able to speak Kazakh. I am sure this will happen,” Nazarbayev […]

  4/18/11 • (1)

• Technology for Education

  One of the things I’ve been trying to do as an educational consultant here is teach teachers to use technology, but in a smart way. I’ve become less of a fan of Smartboards or Active whiteboards here because they’ve been implemented in most classrooms like slightly more convenient projectors. The ability to use pens to […]

  4/03/11 • (Comments Off on Technology for Education)

• Facebook U

  Technically this isn’t news about Kazakhstan, but it’s making big noise here where a Western education can land you a very good job and a high salary. Apparently the London School of Business and Finance is offering free MBAs online via Facebook. OK, not really. They are, however, putting up materials online including readings and […]

  3/28/11 • (Comments Off on Facebook U)

• Deputy Calls for Solution to Evolution/Creation Debate

  I never did get around to posting about the Kazakh student who beat up 2 men in the UK after hearing them make a joke about Borat. I then failed to post about member of Parliament in Kazakhstan, Bekbolat Tleukhan’s reaction to the attack, mainly that he blames Sascha Baron Cohen because “our students abroad […]

  12/26/10 • (1)

• The President’s Speech at Nazarbayev University

  Besides the appeal to scientists to to stop the effects of aging, which made world news, Nazarbayev did have other things to say in his speech to students at Nazarbayev University last week. Kazakhnomad has some of her notes up and it’s worth going through. I think the admissions that Kazakhstan is behind in the […]

  12/21/10 • (2)

• Education System in Kazakhstan

  Another nice post I picked up from the Peace Corps Volunteers in Kazakhstan blog feed. This one is an end of summer post, but I thought the bit on how directors of colleges see their teachers as a workforce was interesting. One of the big problems I was loath to face was the situation at […]

  10/21/10 • (1)

• Nazarbayev University Freed From Curriculum

  Parliament has agreed to pass legislation giving Nazarbayev University “special status”, meaning that it will be able to set its own curriculum. Nazarbayev University, where students started studying about two weeks ago, has invited Western universities in to run the academic programs University College of London at the moment is running the course for undergraduates. […]

  10/19/10 • (Comments Off on Nazarbayev University Freed From Curriculum)

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