Kyrgyzstan News News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Kyrgyzstan: Education reform botched in implementation
To get the best results, hire the best people. That was the unspoken mantra under which Kyrgyzstan’s government again tinkered, last summer, with the school system. The immediate result of the reforms ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: The Declining Value of a Chinese Education in Kyrgyzstan
Exposing the consequences of stringent COVID-19 restrictions. hundreds of demonstrations flared across China late last month. The social unrest is especially demonstrative of the younger Chinese ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Digital education lags behind as Kyrgyzstan’s schools lack access
Students of all schools in Kyrgyzstan have been studying from home since the beginning of April 2020. However, they and their parents face hardship with distance education, as many schoolchildren ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Kyrgyzstan: Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities
(Berlin) – Thousands of children with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan are segregated in residential institutions where they can experience neglect, inappropriate medical treatment, and discrimination, ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Leveraging district education managers in Kyrgyzstan’s school reforms
Across Kyrgyzstan’s mountainous landscape, a broad education reform is taking shape. Known as Altyn Kazyk – or Polar Star – the ten-year reform is introducing a 12-year education system, modernized ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Booming Demand For Madrasahs Fuels Islamization Concerns In Kyrgyzstan
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- At a spotless and modern-looking madrasah in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh Province, two teenage girls studying the Koran admit that they know little about the Arabic text they have ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Kyrgyz Education Minister Detained Over Allegations Of Taking Bribes For Admissions
BISHKEK -- Kyrgyz Education Minister Almaz Beishenaliev has been detained on charges of taking bribes in connection with student admissions to the Central Asian nation's universities. The Interior ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: ADB funds vocational education reform in Kyrgyzstan
The Asian Development Bank is issuing a $10 million grant to help the Kyrgyz Republic modernize its vocational education system. “The current vocational education system is neither responsive to ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Kyrgyzstan: Officials Strive to Curb Corruption in Education System
Nearly four years ago, Kurmanbek Bakiyev declared corruption Kyrgyzstan's "greatest evil." Within the country's higher education system, graft continues to flourish. To combat falling intellectual and ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Conflict Leaves Children without Education
Kayirgul is a bright 9-year-old elementary school student from Ak-Sai village in southern Kyrgyzstan. Her village was one of the ten impacted during violent clashes on the border between Kyrgyzstan ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Education: Kyrgyzstan: Education Reform
Almaz reviews the efforts to reform the education sector in Kyrgyzstan, saying that for landlocked country with no hopes for industrialization, the only way is to become a service-oriented country, ...