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Central Asia activity round up and two hot higher education trends
Hello and welcome back to the blog! It’s been a busy few months – whoever said that academics get the summer off has clearly never encountered the 24/7ized nature of today’s higher education… I’ve been teaching, researching, conferencing, preparing for my second year at McGill, and more during the northern summer (‘holiday’) period! Central Asia-wise, Read more
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International students are under attack: What can we do?
Together with my research team at McGill, we’ve got a new article out in this week’s University World News. It reflects on the ways international students are being attacked, both literally and metaphorically, and the five macro factors causing a rise in anti-international student sentiment. We also suggest some possible ways forward anchored in a Read more
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New article! Destruction, construction, reconstitution: The dynamics of structural reform and the creation of new higher education institutions in the former Soviet space
Hot off the press and available open access is my latest journal article, titled Destruction, construction, reconstitution: The dynamics of structural reform and the creation of new higher education institutions in the former Soviet space. The article examines reforms in higher education in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, focusing on the creation of new Read more
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Comparing distance education and digitalization in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Tajikistan
Three years of hard work, three very different contexts, groundbreaking mixed methods research and nearly 10,000 participants, all summarized into a 20 page comparative analysis? Yup! This felt like an impossible task and there is so much interesting detail that could not be included, but together with project leads Jyldyz Doolbekova and Almagul Osmonova, we’ve Read more
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Going the distance: Readiness for digitalization and distance education in Tajikistan
Just in time for Nowruz and hot on the heels on the recent publication of a policy brief on Kyrgyzstan, the next brief in the series is now available for Tajikistan. Summarizing the results of a three year research project on distance education and improving educational access and quality, the policy briefs (prepared by me) Read more
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Trouble brewing at Nazarbayev University?
Nazarbayev University, the ‘Oxford of Kazakhstan‘, is in the headlines, though this time not on account of its myriad of impressive achievements achieved since it was founded in 2010. Enter Shigeo Katsu, founding President (Rector/Vice-Chancellor) of NU… until a few months ago. Rumours of his departure started circulating in May 2023, confirmed shortly after by Read more
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Emma Harden-Wolfson 