Studycountry about Kazakhstan education system, Part – 6
Young pioneers, SourceAt this monumental junction of its history, Kazakhstan had an important choice to make: empowerment through force and dictatorship, or prosperity through disarmament and democracy.. The new Kazakhstan President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, chose the latter, and today Kazakhstan is emerging as a new player in the global economy, and a key component to regional and world stability.
Much of Kazakhstan’s success can be traced back to 1993, when the country became the first Asian nation to launch a presidential scholarship program: Bolashak, meaning “The Future” in the Kazakh language. This program highlights the importance of educating and training Kazakhstan’s most talented youth at the world’s best universities. On November 9, 1993, President Nazarbayev decreed, “In Kazakhstan’s transition toward a market economy and the expansion of international contacts, there is an acute need for cadres with advanced western education, and so, it is now necessary to send the most qualified youth to study in leading educational institutions in foreign countries.”
As a result of this decree, Bolashak scholars are today trained in a number of fields, including:
• Business• International relations• Law• Science• EngineeringUpon completion of their foreign educational programs, recipients return to Kazakhstan and engage in governmental work for a period of five years. The rigorous criteria for selecting Bolashak scholars assures that only the best and most promising students, regardless of ethnicity, are named Bolashak Scholars.
The Bolashak program is fully funded by the Government of Kazakhstan and overseen by the Ministry of Education and Science. Since 1994, hundreds of Bolashak scholars have graduated from top universities around the world, including the following giants of American education:
• Harvard• Massachusetts Institute of Technology• Columbia• Duke• Georgetown• Emory• Carnegie Mellon• Indiana University• VanderbiltThese same academics are currently working or have worked in various Kazakhstan government and international organizations, while contributing to the democratic transformation of their country.
Translator: Nurkabekova Alua, 301 group
Source: https://bilimdinews.kz/?p=1336#:~:text=The%20education%20system%20in%20Kazakhstan%20is%20overseen%20by%20the%20Ministry,of%2016%2D18%20as%20well.
Much of Kazakhstan’s success can be traced back to 1993, when the country became the first Asian nation to launch a presidential scholarship program: Bolashak, meaning “The Future” in the Kazakh language. This program highlights the importance of educating and training Kazakhstan’s most talented youth at the world’s best universities. On November 9, 1993, President Nazarbayev decreed, “In Kazakhstan’s transition toward a market economy and the expansion of international contacts, there is an acute need for cadres with advanced western education, and so, it is now necessary to send the most qualified youth to study in leading educational institutions in foreign countries.”
As a result of this decree, Bolashak scholars are today trained in a number of fields, including:
• Business• International relations• Law• Science• EngineeringUpon completion of their foreign educational programs, recipients return to Kazakhstan and engage in governmental work for a period of five years. The rigorous criteria for selecting Bolashak scholars assures that only the best and most promising students, regardless of ethnicity, are named Bolashak Scholars.
The Bolashak program is fully funded by the Government of Kazakhstan and overseen by the Ministry of Education and Science. Since 1994, hundreds of Bolashak scholars have graduated from top universities around the world, including the following giants of American education:
• Harvard• Massachusetts Institute of Technology• Columbia• Duke• Georgetown• Emory• Carnegie Mellon• Indiana University• VanderbiltThese same academics are currently working or have worked in various Kazakhstan government and international organizations, while contributing to the democratic transformation of their country.
Translator: Nurkabekova Alua, 301 group
Source: https://bilimdinews.kz/?p=1336#:~:text=The%20education%20system%20in%20Kazakhstan%20is%20overseen%20by%20the%20Ministry,of%2016%2D18%20as%20well.