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• Teachers in Kazakhstan

  Kazakhnomad has a series of interesting pieces up on teaching and teachers in Kazakhstan. She did a survey of students, teachers and people who have studied abroad on their opinions about how education should be and also had some teachers write essays about why they are teachers and how they can help their country. If […]

  9/11/10 • (6)

• Second Grader’s Case Thrown Out

  An update on my post, Second Grader Sues Ministry. Apparently, the filing was rejected although I can’t find news of this online. However in searching, I found a report on Khabar news and this follow up Book publisher at fault [RU]. Apparently the Ministry of Education never approved this book. The publisher has admitted that […]

  8/04/10 • (3)

• 1 Sept Still First Day of School

  Despite the fact that next winter the Asian Winter Games will be held in Kazakhstan, Almaty education officials say the school year will start on 1 Sept as always. Rumors that the school year would start early so that winter vacation would coincide with the games (or so that pupil would have a longer winter […]

  7/28/10 • (Comments Off on 1 Sept Still First Day of School)

• Second Grader Sues Ministry of Education

  According to Zakon.kz, a boy in second grade is suing the Ministry of Education for psychological damage because his textbook on road safety contains many grammatical and spelling mistakes as well as useless or confusing information. Alikhan Zhumanov of Astana has filed a suit for 100 million tenge for moral and mental damage. The father, […]

  7/25/10 • (2)

• Indian Medical Students Like Kazakhstan

  An article I’ve had sitting around in my inbox waiting to be posted on. What’s interesting about this article is that Kazakhstan is popular among Indian students, although the main point is that the Medical Council of India has tightened restrictions for students who study abroad. It’s a bit sad that Almaty Medical Institute, one […]

  3/26/10 • (2)

• Jeopardy Part II

  I wrote earlier about one of my educational projects with an ESL teacher here in Kazakhstan. We designed an Jeopardy game in .html to have some fun with kids. Well, implementation didn’t go so well. A lot of teachers found it hard to work with because you had to edit so many different files and […]

  11/07/09 • (Comments Off on Jeopardy Part II)

• What Exactly is Banned?

  According to an article by Interfax, wearing the hijab in Kazakhstan schools is forbidden. Apparently a student in Taraz wanted to wear one and the school administration did not allow her to, citing rules regarding the school uniform and the Taraz city education department supported this decision. Interestingly, apparently the Minster of Justice wrote on […]

  10/02/09 • (1)

• Plagarism in the US

  I wrote earlier about essay mills in Kazakhstan, where people write papers for students. While it is widely believed that former Soviet countries are more prone to cheating and corruption than Western nations, I found this interesting video tour of a US essay mill website from the Chronicle of Higher Education. So it’s not just […]

  5/13/09 • (Comments Off on Plagarism in the US)

• Census Ended

  The 2009 Census ended in Kazakhstan a few weeks ago. So far not a lot of news is out there on the results but the population did grow by 9% in the past 10 years to 16,304,840 people. I had the privilege of taking the census here in Astana and I must say that the […]

  3/24/09 • (Comments Off on Census Ended)

• New Old Site on Education in Central Asia

  Got this announcement in my mail today and I thought I’d share it with you as I know that TOL is an excellent source of news and information about Central Asia and the former Soviet Union: Transitions (TOL) today launched a new version of Chalkboard, the website dedicated to news and analysis of education issues […]

  2/06/09 • (Comments Off on New Old Site on Education in Central Asia)

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