Abstract:
Faculty academic mobility is an important trend of higher education policy in Kazakhstan.
Nowadays many universities in Kazakhstan aim to promote faculty academic mobility and
the Kazakh government has been supportive of these efforts. This qualitative case study
research examines external faculty academic mobility (EFAM) in one regional university
in Kazakhstan. The purpose of this study isto understand the importance of EFAM to both
faculty and the university at one regional university in Kazakhstan. Semi-structured
interviews and document analysis were the main instruments of data collection