Kazakhstan: education beyond frontiers

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Kazakhstan education beyond frontiers

• Destination Indiana Program for Overseas
  Educational Advisers
• Indiana, USA
• May 2006

By Ilya Stremoussov, Educational Advising Center,
Aktobe/Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan at a glance

• Kazakhstan the heart of Central Asia
• Second biggest country in former Soviet Union
• Biggest economy in Central Asia
• 14 mln people
• Over 100 nationalities
• (largest ethnic groups
• Kazakhs and Russians)

Almaty, southern capital
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Education dot KZ

• Over 50 universities with 100 majors
• Nearly a million higher education students
• Top 3 universities with foreign contribution
• KIMEP (Kazakhstan Institute of Management,
  Economics and Strategic Research)
• KAU (Kazakh-American University)
• KBTU (Kazakh-British Technical University)
• www.edu.gov.kz Ministry of Education

Basic Kazakhstan Educational System
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KZ-to-US Basic Statistics
During 2004-2005 approximately 500 Kazakhstani
students studied in the USA, according to the
Institute of International Education (IIE) Open
Doors 2004-2005 by IIE, http//opendoors.iienetwor
k.org
Top 5 majors Business Administration Economics Le
gal Studies Healthcare Computer Science
Top 5 US Destinations Texas California Massachuse
tts New York D.C.
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Other destinations

• United Kingdom (British Council and Open Society
  Institute)
• Germany (DAAD German Academic Exchange Service)
• China
• Russia

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Increased Attention to Education Abroad Factors

• Favorable general economic situation
  (affordability)
• More open information through EACs
• Students confidence in foreign education
• Scholarship programs (both international and
  national)

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Education abroad national policy

• BOLASHAK (FUTURE) Presidential Scholarship
  Program
• Approx. 1700 full scholarship recipients for
  2006-2007 academic year
• More than 10 countries
• Nearly 50 chose the U.S. as a place of study
• Majors ranging from tourism and MPA to heavy
  machinery and spacecraft construction

www.edu-cip.kz
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Aktobe EAC

• Established in 1999
• Education abroad advising services
• Contact Ilya Stremoussov
• akeac_at_mail.ru
• akt-eac_at_nursat.kz
• http//eac.bilim.kz