Abstract:
The Graduate School of Education was launched in 2012. Its PhD program is designed
for students, who "are committed to taking a leadership role in educational reform and management in
Kazakhstan" (NU website). In 2014 eleven students were selected and offered a state scholarship. Within
the course on Advanced Methods of Educational Research, the 1s t year PhD students conducted a small
scale research to address two research questions, namely to understand the reasons behind PhD students"
desire to pursue post-graduate education at Nazarbayev University, Graduate School of Education
(NUGSE), and their career expectations upon the completion of the program.
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