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    QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EDUCATION & RESEARCH AND ACCOUNTABILITY
    (2013-06) Bridges, David
    “As a general observation, we should probably be alert to the different conditions and requirements that operate between e.g.'big science'(that might require heavy investment in equipment and facilities and large teams of researchers) and research e.g. in the humanities and social sciences that might have different features and requirements.”---
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    THE UNIVERSITY: A CENTER OF LEARNING?
    (2012-08) Bridges, David
    "I want to begin with the significance that both the Minister and Deputy Prime-minister have attached to the university's contribution to economic development.This is clearly a theme on which one could expand very extensively, but the contribution includes a number of different dimensions, and I think it worth distinguishing some of these. Part of it is certainly about equipping an economy with higher level understanding and skills, and at the moment many international companies coming into Kazakhstan have to bring these with them or seek in the international market place, higher level skills, which in future, one hopes.Kazakhstan w i l l be able to supply through its own higher education system" - ...
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    Transition from school to university:some issues for kazakhstan and the wider region
    (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2015-06-11) Bridges, David
    This short presentation commented on three issues relating to students’ transition from school to higher education: selection; curriculum and teacher training. In all cases the observations point towards the crucial importance of schools and universities working in a close partnership based on mutual respect. The comments were derived primarily from experience and research in Kazakhstan conducted with colleagues from Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education: