Here's a very nice (Russian language) summary of a recent (English language) seminar given by Professor Sarfaroz Niyozov of the University of Toronto, Canada on knowledge production in Tajikistan. Niyozov draws on global discourses of decolonization, recolonization and indigenization as they might pertain to the contemporary Central Asian context. You can also watch the seminar …
Tag: social sciences
Most popular degrees in Tajikistan
The results of this year's university admission testing in Tajikistan (which, like in many other former Soviet countries, is now centralized) are now in. Over 100,000 higher education hopefuls took entrance exams in 2019, most for entrance to university. Around 10% were seeking admission to college i.e. the final two years of secondary education (usually …
New article out: The Dominance of Social Sciences in English-Medium Instruction Universities in Central Asia
The latest issue of Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 3(5) Fall 2015, is just out today and I'm delighted to say it has an essay I wrote in it. The informational newsletter comes from the prestigious Higher School of Economics in Moscow as part of a cooperation agreement with Boston College's Center of International Higher Education. …
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