Emma Harden-Wolfson

Higher education in Central Asia blog

  • Managing your career in higher education administration is PUBLISHED

    Our new book, Managing your career in higher education administration, is officially published today! Amazon.co.uk even tells me that there is ‘limited stock’ available, although at 648,950 in their bestsellers rank I suspect that is more to do with the smallish print run than anything else… If you haven’t already ordered your copy, please feel free… Read more

  • Why fund students to study abroad?

    So asks a report by the British Council and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD, or German Academic Exchange Service) that I have been meaning to post for some time: http://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/britishcouncil.uk2/files/e002_outward_mobility_study_final_v2_web.pdf ‘The rationale for sponsoring students to undertake international study: an assessment of national student mobility scholarship programmes’ was published at this year’s British Council-sponsored Going… Read more

  • Higher education in Russia and beyond

    I welcome the launch of a new bulletin, Higher Education in Russia and Beyond (HERB). Published in English by Moscow-based Higher School of Economics as a supplement to International Higher Education [ru], the bulletin aims to present current Russian, Central Asian and Eastern European educational trends to the international higher education research community. Aside from boasting… Read more

  • Malaysian university to open in Tajikistan

    Malaysian Limkokwing University has committed to opening a campus in Tajikistan, a not unexpected move by this ambitious and globally facing technical/creative university, which I first investigated in 2011. The announcement was made during President Rahmon’s visit to Malaysia earlier this week. In the press release on the President’s website [ru], it is noted that there are ‘only’ around 40… Read more

  • Alexander is a researcher, not a spy!

    Tajik researcher Alexander Sodiqov, a PhD student at the University of Toronto (Canada) was arrested on Monday and his whereabouts are currently unknown. He was in Khorog, regional capital of the Autonomous Region of Gorno Badakshan in eastern Tajikistan, undertaking academic research as part of an Economic & Social Research Council (UK Research Council) funded project on… Read more

  • New university league for Eurasia

    The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) has set up a University League to ‘ensure comprehensive, systematic scientific and methodological support for the development of the international Eurasian community in the spheres of the economy, science and technology, legal fundamentals and the philosophy of human life.’ It’s not aiming to capture all universities in the member countries… Read more