I’m pleased to report that my article ‘Challenges in contemporary higher education in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia’ has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Perspectives: policy and practice in higher education!

The article builds on the interviews I undertook in summer 2014 with senior university managers in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, thanks to funding from the Joan Balchin Memorial Fund.

As the reviewer put it, this is ‘an interesting study of a nation which seems to combine the negative and positive legacies of USSR-based education with the opportunities and problems of the relatively unregulated situation prevailing in most of the rest of the world.’

Watch this space for details of the publication date…