Internationalization of Higher Education in Kazakhstan: National Capacity-Building Initiatives

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Author(s): Ainur Seitbattalovna Kenebayeva (University of International Business, Kazakhstan)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Policies and Initiatives for the Internationalization of Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Fatoş Silman (Cyprus International University, Cyprus), Fahriye Altinay Aksal (Near East University, Cyprus)and Zehra Altinay Gazi (Near East University, Cyprus)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5231-4.ch009

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference

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This chapter highlights the internationalization of the higher education system in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It briefly discusses Kazakh national initiatives to enhance the country's global economic competitiveness through modernization and capacity-building in the field of higher education and science. National experience on integration to the international educational space by the consecutive implementation of Bologna principles is reflected. The importance of the Bolashak presidential scholarship program is addressed as a strategy for human capital development. This chapter also underlines trends, tendencies, and issues of internationalization of higher education in globalization. Key aspects of internationalization considered through the prism of the Kazakhstani experience include academic mobility, accreditation, university rankings, and research and development (R&D).

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