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• 20 – 7000 Kazakh Students Can’t Pay

  This story has been in my backlog, duly starred in Google Reader and bookmarked in the “To Post About” Folder on Firefox. But as I work through that file of stories I meant to post about, they become less and less timely. So I’m going to link to a nice article on it at Ekspeditsya, […]

  1/26/09 • (Comments Off on 20 – 7000 Kazakh Students Can’t Pay)

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  Got Spellcheck. Will Write for Food

  Walking by bus stops in Astana, particularly those near universities, you might see ads that read like the one illustrated here: “Will write research papers and dissertations (in Russian or Kazakh). Selection of texts and translations. Written to schedule, high-quality, CHEAP!” Other ads highlight that they write course papers in Kazakh, a big help to […]

  1/23/08 • (1)

• Adopting the Wrong Western Models?

  English Advantage has an interesting post up about an article that appeared recently in Businesswomen.kz. There’s a discussion on whether or not Kazakhstan should adopt the “student-as-consumer” model of education that is gaining popularity in the West, but not among professors and teaching staff! It leads to the question of whether Kazakhstan should adopt everything […]

  9/30/07 • (Comments Off on Adopting the Wrong Western Models?)

• Education Reform

  As Kazakhstan is reforming its system of education in order to join the Bologna Process and to boost its economy, the approach they are taking is potentially controversial. There is a great emphasis on introducing new technology–Kazakhstan will build a number of high-tech classrooms in schools and vocational schools throughout the country and also work […]

  5/21/07 • (Comments Off on Education Reform)

• 2007 Address to the People of Kazakhstan

  On the 28th of February, the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev, gave his annual Address to the People of Kazakhstan, the speech where he gives the government its tasks and strategies for the year. You can go to Akorda.kz for the full text of the speech. Overall the speech focused on improving social protection […]

  3/01/07 • (3)

• Po Kazakhskii

  Today as I walked through the old square of Astana, I saw something going on at the Ministry of Education. Cars and trucks parked everywhere, hundreds of kids running around carrying boxes and Chinese bags, men and women standing over them barking orders. I asked one of the kids what was going on. “The Ministry […]

  2/15/07 • (Comments Off on Po Kazakhskii)

• HIV Crisis Update

  On the 9th of January, court cases began for doctors and officials implicated in the errors that led to 84 children and 12 women being infected with the HIV virus in Shymkent in Southern Kazakhstan. The infections apparently came from children’s hospitals that failed to properly test blood donors for HIV and/or reused needles. It […]

  1/10/07 • (2)

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  Kazakhsha

  A number of issues regarding Kazakh language have come out recently. First, there was the announcement on the 24th of October that Kazakhstan will switch to the Latin alphabet, whereas now it uses a Cyrillic alphabet. Historically, Kazakh was originally written in a Turkish script and then in Arabic script, and briefly in Latin script […]

  11/16/06 • (18)

• Education in Kazakhstan

  As part of the Wiki Project Central Asia on Wikkipedia.com, I put up a new requested article on the Education System in Kazakhstan: here. Edit away! I don’t guarentee the 100% accuracy of everything but I figured having a framework up there (adapted from a report I did for a foreign consultant last year) would […]

  10/28/06 • (Comments Off on Education in Kazakhstan)

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