WENR, July/August 2009: Russia & CIS

Regional Central Asian Universities to Benefit from EU Broadband Researchers in Central Asia are to benefit from a new high-speed data-communications network. The European Union-funded Central Asian Research and Education Network (Caren) project will provide broadband for the first time to about one million students…

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WENR, June 2009: Europe

Regional Students Express Bologna Concerns European universities have failed to improve student opportunities – a stated goal of the Bologna Process – and must act now if they are to avoid the entire exercise becoming a “superficial redesign” of higher education, say European students. The…

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WENR, June 2009: Russia & CIS

Regional Turkish Schools Set Standards in Central Asia amid Increasing Scrutiny Haji Kemal Tajik-Turkish boarding school in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe is considered one of the best schools in the country. Students are taught and communicate in four languages – English, Turkish, Russian, and…

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WENR, May 2009: Europe

Regional European Commission Looks at Progress in Educational Structures Ministers from 46 (mainly European) countries met at the end of April to discuss progress made toward the goal of creating a European Higher Education Area by next year under the tenets of the Bologna Process. …

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WENR, May 2009: Russia & CIS

Regional Rebuilding a Higher Education System Begins with One University Quality standards within the Russian higher education system have been in freefall since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Between 2006 and 2007, the nation’s flagship university, Moscow State, dropped from…

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