October 20, 2024
What constitutes any country’s most valuable resource? What determines a country’s position on the world stage, and defines its economy, societal structure, and political system? In the past, the answer to these questions might have been simple. A country’s geography dictated its destiny during the ancient period of human history. […]
October 20, 2024
Since independence in 1991, the government of Kazakhstan has been promoting Kazakh as the primary language of the state, culture, and education. Efforts have been made to expand Kazakh-language education and increase its use in public and official domains. The country’s Constitution designates Kazakh as the state language, while Russian […]
July 19, 2024
In the modern world, a country’s ability to develop economically, socially, culturally, and technologically directly depends on the availability and qualifications of human resources. The labor force is a part of the social population that has economic activity. The efficiency of the labor force is ensured by technical and vocational […]
May 28, 2023
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, regional education policy is “a set of decisions and actions that guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of education programs and services within a specific geographic region” [UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2019]. Regional education policy refers to policies that are specific to a […]
March 30, 2023
In the dynamic and complex job market of the modern world, both hard and soft skills have become increasingly important for individuals to succeed in their professional lives. Hard skills refer to the specific technical knowledge and abilities required for a particular job or industry that an individual acquires through […]
January 9, 2023
The city of Turkistan has seen tremendous transformations over the past several years. From a small modest provincial city in southern Kazakhstan, it became a developing regional center home to over 200 thousand people. Over the past ten years, its population has increased by nearly 50%, which made it one […]
November 30, 2022
One of the biggest global forums on education, the United Nations Education Transformation Summit, was held in New York City from 16 to 19 September 2022. The summit took place during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly and was convened by the Secretary-General to put education at the […]
June 8, 2022
The cornerstones of any successful society are the media and the press. They are the “Fourth Estate of the realm” – a crucial supporting pillar of statehood to legislature, judiciary and executive to impose and ensure people’s control over other institutions. Independent press has the potential to expose both deliberate […]
June 3, 2022
Since the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools in the world were forced to shift their activities into an online mode in order to continue learning during school closures. While in some countries shift to online learning revealed a potential for innovation in school education, in other countries, it […]
May 7, 2022
Questions about how Muslim communities are adapting to the digital age, how the online environment is transforming their identities, authority systems, and religious practices worry both Muslims themselves, who are trying to understand the influence of the Internet on their spiritual life and religious scholars, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists who are […]