Kasha and Quality in Kyrgyzstan: Donors, Diversity, and Dis-Integration in Higher Education

Autor/in	Merrill, Martha C.
Titel	Kasha and Quality in Kyrgyzstan: Donors, Diversity, and Dis-Integration in Higher Education
Quelle	In: European Education, 43 (2012) 4, S.5-25 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-4934
DOI	10.2753/EUE1056-4934430401
Schlagwörter	Masters Programs; Foreign Countries; Educational Quality; Poverty; International Education; International Cooperation; Educational Policy; Futures (of Society); Religion; Self Concept; Bachelors Degrees; College Credits; Language of Instruction; Russian; Turkish; English (Second Language); Turkic Languages; Administrative Organization; Higher Education; Kyrgyzstan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Ausland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Armut; Internationale Erziehung; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Future; Society; Zukunft; Selbstkonzept; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; College; Colleges; Achievement; Performance; Anrechnung; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Leistung; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Russisch; Türkisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Turkish; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Kyrgyzstan's relative openness to a diversity of ideas, combined with its poverty, has caused it to accept a plethora of international academic institutions and programs, often exported by the sender rather than imported at Kyrgyzstan's request. These institutions suggest a variety of visions of Kyrgyzstan's future and of the political and religious identities of its citizens. The exported programs reveal a range of "donor logics," including different ideas about what constitutes quality. The result is a system lacking in integration. It includes three-year bachelor's degrees, four-year bachelor's degrees, five-year "diploms," one- and two-year master's degrees, "kandidat nauks," programs based on contact hours, programs using credit hours (some U.S.-style, some European), and universities teaching in Kyrgyz, Russian, English, and Turkish. The result is kasha--literally, porridge, with a little of this and a little of that added in, but in slang, a mess. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10