Regional Vocational Institutes Providing Basic Training to Tackle Rural Poverty in Central Asia A new regional skills development program across the Central Asian region is helping to redefine outmoded vocational institutes in the countries of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Using a network of higher education…
Regional Record Numbers of Students Although the pace of educational progress in Afghanistan varies dramatically across the country, depending largely on who maintains control there, students and teachers at 9,000 schools in 29 provinces began the new academic year on March 23 in record numbers….
Kyrgyzstan Colleges Training Kyrgyz to Work Overseas to Ease Unemployment at Home Government officials are actively encouraging vocational colleges to train young people for job prospects abroad in a bid to ease the burden of high levels of unemployment at home. Kyrgyz colleges are now…
Regional Universities Offer Free Tuition to Internationals in Hunt for Talented Graduate Students Would-be engineering and science graduate students are taking up high-paying positions in the nation’s booming resources industries leaving universities facing a shortage of local talent in those fields and forcing them to…
Azerbaijan Universities to Work Toward Bologna Reform Goals A government working group has been established to develop a raft of higher education reforms after a decree was signed by President Ilham Aliyev at the end of January, according to Trend News. The reforms will be…