Interested staff and students are invited to attend Ainura Djumasheva's PhD confirmation presentation on Wednesday, 19 March, 10am to 11.30am, Room G08 (Clayton)
Title Higher Education Policy in Kyrgyzstan: Global and Local Interactions
Abstract: At the end of 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union transformed the fifteen republics of the union into independent states with various capabilities for survival. Among them were the five republics of Central Asia: Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In the post-Soviet period, radical economic and political changes in Kyrgyzstan have affected the entire structure of Kyrgyz education and higher education in particular. National poverty, the introduction of a market economy, and the legacy of Soviet centralization have produced some severe problems in Kyrgyz higher education such as corruption, the brain drain of its intellectuals away from the country, and deteriorating academic quality. Very limited work has been done on post-Soviet policy making in Kyrgyz higher education, in the context of globalization. The aim of the study is to identify the local and global forces that inform policy making in Kyrgyz higher education. Specifically, the research seeks to address: - How can the changing patterns of globalization in modern Kyrgyz higher education policy be characterized? - What is the nature of the interaction between the local and global in higher education policy making in Kyrgyzstan in the post Soviet era?
