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Conceptualizing Paradoxes of Post-Socialist Education in Kyrgyzstan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alan J. DeYoung
Alan J. DeYoung*
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College of Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA. Email: ajdey@uky.edu
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Official government educational pronouncements and policy in the Kyrgyz Republic have called for wider access and participation in higher education as an essential part of the general strategy to build democracy and a market economy. The number of higher education institutions (vuzy) has increased from approximately 10 at the end of the Soviet period to 50 institutions, with over 200,000 students now in attendance. Various international statistical sources show that higher education enrollments peaked above 70% of secondary school graduates in the early 1990s. For the past decade, these figures are lower yet still substantial. UNDP reports between 53% and 63%, while the World Bank and UNESCO report between 41% and 45%. In any of these calculations, however, higher education enrollments in Kyrgyzstan have at least trebled since independence, which is even more remarkable considering that the Kyrgyz system of higher education has become almost entirely paid for by students and parents rather than by the national government.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , September 2008 , pp. 641 - 657
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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