Within Kazakhstan’s fast-changing higher education landscape, the nature of academic deanship is also rapidly changing (Arntzen, 2016; Wepner et al., 2015). While deanship has traditionally been associated with curriculum ...

Kazakhstan is among the countries introducing English medium instruction (EMI) programs in higher education. Despite the rapid spread of EMI, students whose first language is not English have difficulty adjusting to an ...

This qualitative study explores how faculty members in higher education understand and experience internationalization. Driven by the idea that understandings of internationalization of higher education are strongly connected ...

Much attention has been focused on educational accountability globally. Therefore, teacher appraisal has become a high-stake teacher certification process in many contexts with the growing demand to enhance the quality of ...

The significance of creativity and fostering creativity in the educational sphere is widely recognized internationally. Kazakhstan’s renewed curriculum emphasizes the importance of developing creativity in schools. Actual ...

This study investigates Uyghur community stakeholders’ attitudes in relation to the trilingual education policy and Uyghur language maintenance in Kazakhstan. The Uyghurs form a minority group (1.4%) of 224,000 people in ...

Kazakhstan, being dependent on the world economy due to international cooperation in various aspects of the economy has been facing the economic issues in the world economy. During twenty-five year of independence, Kazakhstan ...

The last decades witnessed substantial changes occurring in the higher education curriculum across the world. The transition to the knowledge-based economy has become the focus of the political agenda in many countries, ...

To prepare researchers who can “make important contributions to frontier research” (Bogle et al., 2010, p. 3) is a primary function of PhD education. PhD (doctoral) students grow as researchers by acquiring research ...

This study aims to map the interaction of university, industry, and government (UIG) partnerships in research in Kazakhstan and pursues two major goals. First, the research aims to analyze the patterns of UIG partnerships ...