Female students in Tajikistan are to get a boost from the new Intellect centre at Khorog State University. Opened with a US$40k grant from the World Bank/Ministry of Education, the centre aims to support women's learning by improving their living and studying conditions as well as their academic preparation. Female students from all regions of Tajikistan living …
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University of Central Asia Students Hold First TEDx in Khorog
It's exciting to hear about the initiative taken by University of Central Asia (UCA) students in Khorog, Tajikistan, to hold the town's first TEDx. TED (the 'x' afterwards indicates it's an independently organized event) is now a well-established idea. TED talks are mini-conferences in which people have just a few minutes to share a small …
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In Their Own Words: Scholarship Stories from Tajikistan (repost)
Below is a very nice story posted on the Central Asia Institute website offering motivation and inspiration from a number of scholarship students from Tajikistan. Thanks to Michelle O'Brien for alerting me to this story. In Their Own Words: Scholarship Stories from Tajikistan (c) Central Asia Institute: https://centralasiainstitute.org/in-their-own-words-scholarship-stories-from-tajikistan February 20th, 2018 In Tajikistan, poverty is one of the …
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Bringing libraries to the mountains of Tajikistan
What a super story coming out of Khorog, Tajikistan today. Street Libraries [ru] are being opened in this small and remote mountainous town, a wonderful initiative led by local social organization Umedvor with financial support from corporate success story Pamir Energy. Two of the libraries are up and running in central Khorog, with a further eight planned …
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Bureaucracy 2.0: Red tape redux in Tajikistan
Bureaucracy lives and thrives in the higher education institutions of Central Asia. It may be more than 25 years since the Soviet Union collapsed but the volokita (red tape i.e. bureaucracy) that the USSR was so well known for remains in many social institutions of the formerly Soviet states. Universities are no exception. Opened to …
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Higher education in the high mountains of Central Asia
Regular blog readers will know that I am passionate about higher education and about Central Asia. You may also know that I have been following the trajectory of some of the region's newest institutions with great interest, in order to better understand the motivations behind the creation of these universities and to observe what these institutions mean for the people …
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University of Central Asia ready for students – at last!
After over 15 years in the making, I'm delighted to learn that the University of Central Asia (UCA) is finally ready to admit it first degree-level students for undergraduate courses at the Naryn campus in the Kyrgyz Republic this September. UCA's recent news release further hints that the Khorog campus in Tajikistan will be operational …
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Military conflict, potential humanitarian crisis in Tajikistan: PLEASE HELP RAISE AWARENESS
This is the text of a press release I have put together based on other excellent notes written by Tajik colleagues around the world. Please, please help us raise awareness in the international community about events taking place RIGHT NOW in Khorog, south-east Tajikistan. We are all absolutely clear that we want PEACE and we …
Emma Sabzalieva 