Nation Building and State Building in Post Soviet Azerbaijan: History, Concepts, and Tensions.

The territorial dispute between China and India plays а significant role not only because of the large land in dispute but also because of the current rise of China and India in regional and global level.

In this presentation, I attempt to stretch the discourse surrounding the evolution of the Kazakh language from a political to a socioeconomic perspective.

The status of the superpower of the USSR after WWII became a reality due to its scientific and technological achievements.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the growing income distribution inequality as an acute and chronic disease widespread not only in middle-income and developing countries but also in industrialized ones. The main purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of why unequal income distribution is possible.

The paper reviews the experiences of the three Newly Independent Caspian (NIC) states, namely Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in developing their energy sectors during the two decades after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

The president of Kazakhstan in his annual address to the nation in 2009 raised objective to increase local content (LC) in Kazakhstan. LC policy is defined as "an industrial policy to incentivise or mandate a greater degree of local procurement, employment and capital accumulation" (Kalyuzhnova et al. 2014).

Over the past one decade, the significance given to ICT and Internet's use within the context of the developing countries' educational system through various national initiatives has been only increasing. However, some available data have revealed that the extent to which such initiatives have been able to be successful differed among the countries, therefore necessitating more academic attention and investigation of this emerging field.

The higher education system in Kazakhstan has changed dramatically over the last years. However, transformation of higher education with implementation of international practices is a difficult process.

This paper is a part of a three-year study, 'Internationalisation and reform of secondary schooling in Kazakhstan', jointly conducted by an international team of UK- and Kazakhstan-based researchers in 2012-2014.

Like many countries, Kazakhstan aspires to advance its school education through the adoption of innovative ideas.

Creativity is now essential in today's rapidly changing world and global economy. To enable youth to thrive in an uncertain future, in education, it is necessary to acknowledge creativity as an essential life skill.

Networking for teacher learning and professional development in Kazakhstani secondary schools. Networking in Kazakhstani schools is not a new phenomenon, however it had been limited to the disciplinary differentiation or the school localisation basis.

Research findings from a range of countries provide conflicting evidence as to the social and educational consequences of single-sex schooling.

This presentation sheds light on findings from a doctoral study on the relationship between teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and their individual technology use within an Arabic language teaching context in Egypt.

Kazakhstan is a country undergoing massive educational reform including the introduction of a trilingual policy in all schools. Since 2012, Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) has been working together with departments of the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (NIS) group to produce external assessments which test the knowledge and skills present in the curriculum introduced under the Integrated Programme of Development (IPD). This paper sets out to examine the application of a Western...

This paper is a part of a larger study looking at the social aspects of transition from school to higher education in Kazakhstan.

Presenting author: Dr Mariam Attia, Research Associate at Durham University, UK on behalf of the AHRC project team. With increased researcher mobility and wider access to information, academic institutions within the UK are experiencing internationalisation processes reflected – among other things – in the surging numbers of researchers conducing research in more than one language (Robinson-Pant, 2009). This presentation draws on two AHRC projects: Researching Multilingually (November 2011 –...

Drawing on the critical strand of literature on organisational learning (e.g. Driver 2002; McKinlay and Starkey 1998; Messer and Jordan 2008; Niesche 2011 and Thomson 2014) and taking the case of the 35 NIS partner schools, we seek to understand the role of an emerging model of organisational learning in the process of adoption of reform and innovation in Kazakhstan.

1) One of the persistent laments of analysts focusing on the Kazakhstan postsecondary education system is the absence of consistent, and, in some cases, reliable data for comparing institutions, on the one hand, and, on the other, for generating a reliable summary of the postsecondary education system as a whole. 2) This seminar explores the narratives of Pamiri men and women who were in primary and secondary school during the brutal conflict that divided the country in the wake of its...

The paper sets out to consider the opinion which, at its bluntest, suggests that one should not work (in educational development) in a country which does not respect the principles of a liberal democracy, which has a poor reputation in terms of human rights and or has an autocratic government. The paper argues that such an opinion must rest on some sort of consequentialist balance sheet of the actual and anticipated consequences of committing to such work or declining to do so – and this...

The purpose of the Forum is to discuss questions pertinent to educational development in Kazakhstan. The main participants of the Forum are 25 Kazakhstani scholars, who are currently doing their Master’s, PhD and post-doctoral research in the UK through the support of Kazakhstani government programme Bolashak (‘Future’). The forum will be structured around three sessions and one roundtable discussion, which will focus on the questions of education policy, reform and innovation, adaptation of...

Morning Session The purpose of the Forum is to discuss questions pertinent to educational development in Kazakhstan. The main participants of the Forum are 25 Kazakhstani scholars, who are currently doing their Master’s, PhD and post-doctoral research in the UK through the support of Kazakhstani government programme Bolashak (‘Future’). The forum will be structured around three sessions and one roundtable discussion, which will focus on the questions of education policy, reform and...