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Universiade 2017 volunteers to be trained by foreigners Volunteers for the Universiade 2017 will be trained by foreigners.

05 December 2013

Online game teaches risks of personal data exposure Sexual orientation, private debt, medical records, even your favourite ice cream flavour: do you know much of this personal information is out there and available for sale?

05 December 2013

Bolashak scholarship - opportunity for children of unemployed or retired Bolashak scholarship gave an opportunity to children of unemployed and retired Kazakhstan nationals to study abroad.

30 November 2013

Mexico to give equality prize to Pakistan's Malala Mexico said Sunday it will award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for championing girls' rights to education.

25 November 2013

Penal Reform International to change lives of prisoners in Kazakhstan Penal Reform International will change the lives of prisoners in Kazakhstan, helping the country in its effort to humanize the penal system.

16 November 2013

Bolashak scholarship rumours dispelled Nur Otan, the ruling political party of Kazakhstan, has dispelled the rumors surrounding selection of Bolashak scholarship benes.

12 November 2013

Microsoft, Samsung and HP to establish research centers at Nazarbayev University The global blue-chip companies are planning to establish high-tech research centers in cooperation with Nazarbayev University in Astana.

11 November 2013

Mussabayev comments his statement about 'beer bar English' of Bolashak graduates Head of KazKosmos National Space Agency Talgat Mussabayev has commented his statement about some graduates of the Bolashak program.

09 November 2013

John Ordway discusses Kazakhstan-US relations with Marat Tazhin Kazakhstan Secretary of State Marat Tazhin received the US Charge d'Affaires John Ordway.

03 November 2013

Kazakhstan wants to privatize public universities The Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan is planning to privatize state-owned universities.

31 October 2013

In Spain, even toddlers learn Chinese for job hopes "Xiang jiao! Banana!" says Fu Huijuan, beaming as she waves the fruit in front of her three-year-old pupil, Leon, at a Madrid nursery school.

31 October 2013

Ancient past challenges modern teaching in 'cradle of mankind' In Kenya's national museum, wide-eyed school children gaze at blackened skeletons of long gone ancestors, 1.5 million-year-old remains that provide key lessons today for modern teachers of mankind's origin.

30 October 2013

High-security isolation for South Korea's exam-setters Every October, hundreds of South Korean teachers and professors are sequestered -- like jurors in a mafia trial -- in a secret, guarded compound: prisoners of their country's obsession with education.

28 October 2013

Famous American economist Jeremy Rifkin to hold master-class in Astana Jeremy Rifkin, a famous American economist, will hold a master-class in Astana next week.

18 October 2013

Kazakhstan Agency for Religion comments hijabs at schools Kazakhstan Agency for Religious Affairs has commented the ban on wearing hijabs at schools.

14 October 2013

Malala calls on world to make education top priority Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist who has become a world champion of girls' rights, called Friday for the World Bank to make education its top priority.

12 October 2013

Malala, Congolese doctor among Nobel Peace favourites Teenage Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and a Congolese doctor dedicated to helping rape victims are the two most-hyped figures among pundits ahead of Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

10 October 2013

World-level tourism training center to open in Almaty The center will be supported by the World Tourism Organization and will have world-level tourism training experts.

09 October 2013

Kazakhstan Defense Ministry selects candidates for education in US universities Kazakhstan Defense Ministry is staring to select candidates for education in US military universities in 2014.

08 October 2013

Two Kazakhstan citizens enter US universities Two Kazakhstan citizens, Ilias Kameledinov and Abylai Akhmetov, have been enrolled in military universities of the US Armed Forces.

08 October 2013

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