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 EU Countries Missing European Education Benchmarks European countries have achieved just one of five education benchmarks that the European Union wants met by the end of the decade, while progress toward the other four has been moderate, according to a recent report from the…
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…
Denmark New Accreditation Body Established The Danish government has established a new Accreditation body, called ACE Denmark, which will review quality standards at the country’s institutions of higher education. Approvals will depend on whether programs meet certain quality standards and if they have relevance to…
Regional New Central Asian University Looking to Break with Past The sparsely populated mountainous regions of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will soon play host to an ambitious three-campus university being built with funding from the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community….