Environmental management master's programme in Kazakhstan: course structure and content

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
N.N. Druz ◽  
S. Heaven ◽  
M.R. Istamkulov ◽  
T.W. Tanton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Set Up ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

The paper briefly considers changes in the higher education system in Kazahkstan since the break-up of the former Soviet Union. At that time master's programmes did not exist and there was no unified system for their introduction. The one-year environmental management course described was the first of its type and was set up with special permission from the Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan to run on an experimental basis. The course differs significantly from other programmes and, under regulations introduced by the ministry in 2001, it is difficult to see how a broad-based programme aimed at introducing graduates from a variety of backgrounds to environmental issues could be achieved within a one-year period. The permission to run the course is periodically reviewed, however, and has been extended due to the excellent results. The course structure and the philosophy behind it are presented along with some of its history. The aim is not to produce specialists in any one area of environmental management, technology or engineering, but individuals with a broad foundation to build on as their professional careers progress.

Creating an Information System for the Russian State Library

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Segbert ◽  
Alexander Vislyi
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
National Library ◽  
Library Automation ◽  
Know How ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Set Up ◽  
State Library

The Russian State Library, the national library of the Russian Federation (until 1992 known as Lenin State Library), began in 1862 when Count N.P. Rumyantsev bequeathed his collection of books, manuscripts, and other materials to the state. From the beginning the library received a free copy of all Russian publications. The library started to look into automation in the late 1960s. Eventually, after a series of false starts and small initiatives, a feasibility study was set up in 1995, funded by the European Commission, focusing on library automation while setting the issue in the wider context of collection development, building improvements, conservation, document supply and staff development. As a result of this study the Russian State Library was awarded a Tacis project and a budget of one million Euro over 18 months (later extended by six months, plus 300,000 Euro for the extension). Tacis fosters the development of links between EU countries and the states of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. A key area of Tacis activity is Know-How transfer, carried out through policy advice, consultancy teams, training studies and partnerships. Several other varied projects have been initiated. Many positive changes have occurred during the project, notably in the development of staff.

scholarly journals Armenia as a Regional Centre for Astronomy for Development activities

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 565-565
Author(s):  
A. Mickaelian
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
East Region ◽  
Promotional Materials ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
The One ◽  
Middle East Region ◽  
Virtual Observatories ◽  
Observational Instruments

AbstractThe Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO, Armenia, http://www.bao.am) are among the candidate IAU Regional Nodes for Astronomy for Development activities. It is one of the main astronomical centers of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East region. At present there are 48 qualified researchers at BAO, including six Doctors of Science and 30 PhDs. Five important observational instruments are installed at BAO, the larger ones being 2.6m Cassegrain (ZTA-2.6) and 1m Schmidt (the one that provided the famous Markarian survey). BAO is regarded as a national scientific-educational center, where a number of activities are being organized, such as: international conferences (4 IAU symposia and 1 IAU colloquium, JENAM-2007, etc.), small workshops and discussions, international summer schools (1987, 2006, 2008 and 2010), and Olympiads. BAO collaborates with scientists from many countries. The Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS, http://www.aras.am/) is an NGO founded in 2001; it has 93 members and it is rather active in the organization of educational, amateur, popular, promotional and other matters. The Armenian Virtual Observatory (ArVO, http://www.aras.am/Arvo/arvo.htm) is one of the 17 national VO projects forming the International Virtual Observatories Alliance (IVOA) and is the only VO project in the region serving also for educational purposes. A number of activities are planned, such as management, coordination and evaluation of the IAU programs in the area of development and education, establishment of the new IAU endowed lectureship program and organization of seminars and public lectures, coordination and initiation of fundraising activities for astronomy development, organization of regional scientific symposia, conferences and workshops, support to Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP), production/publication of educational and promotional materials, etc.

scholarly journals Uzbekistan: Higher Education Reforms and the Changing Landscape Since Independence

2018 ◽  
pp. 435-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kobil Ruziev ◽  
Umar Burkhanov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Higher Education Reforms ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The One

AbstractThis chapter is the first study that carefully documents higher education (HE) reforms in Uzbekistan since the demise of the former Soviet Union. It analyses evolution of the sector with clear emphasis on government policy and its impact on changing the country’s higher education landscape since independence. The study highlights complex interactions between the distinct pre- and post-independence contexts, policy legislation and its implementation on the one hand, and the demands of the new market-based economic system and the requirements of building and strengthening state institutions to support the transition process on the other hand. The paper will show why the country’s peculiar ‘strictly top-down’ approach to reforms has not been successful in improving a number of key areas including access to higher education, and human as well as physical capacities of higher education institutions which ultimately determine the quality of higher education provisioning.

Writing the Intifada Collective Action in the Occupied Territories

1993 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian S. Lustick
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The five-year-old Palestinian uprising, the intifada, was the first of many mass mobilizations against nondemocratic rule to appear in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the former Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991. Although the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is seldom included by the media or by social scientists in their treatments of this putative wave of “democratization,” many studies of the uprising are available. Although largely atheoretic in their construction of the intifada and in their explanations for it, the two general questions posed by most of these authors are familiar to students of collective action and revolution. On the one hand, why did it take twenty years for the Palestinians to launch the uprising? On the other hand, how, in light of the individual costs of participation and the negligible impact of any one person's decision to participate, could it have occurred at all? The work under review provides broad support for recent trends in the analysis of revolution and collection action, while illustrating both the opportunities and the constraints associated with using monographic literature as a data base.

scholarly journals Legal Instruments Pertaining to Environmental Management in the Textile Sector of Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamrul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Effluent Discharge ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Legal Guidelines ◽  
Textile Sector

The aim of this short communication is to find out the legal set up that complies with the environmental management in the textile sector of Bangladesh. This sector is the one of the biggest contributor to the economy of the nation. This sector contributes 81% to the total export earnings involving an immense number of stakeholders to its production processes. It is also true that this sector is largely responsible for the overall environmental pollution through its effluent discharge. The findings suggest that there are both international and national legal guidelines exist for environmental management in the said sector. In order to improve the environmental standards rehearsing lawful instruments is compulsory for the said industries.

CALLex: a CALL game to study lexical relationships based on a semantic database

ReCALL ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Henriëtte Visser
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
The One ◽  
Student Input ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Semantic Database

This paper presents the prototype of CALLex, a program for learning lexical functions, created by a project funded by INTAS, a European organisation promoting cooperation between the European Union and the states of the former Soviet Union, developed by the Laboratory of Computational Linguistics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, supported by the universities of Klagenfurt, Austria and Heidelberg, Germany. The goal of the program is to facilitate language learning through several linguistic games in order to improve the lexical command of the language studied. The CALLex games access a lexico-semantic database consisting of two dictionaries, Russian and German, each containing roughly 1000 lexemes. The lexical functions cover a wide variety of lexical relationships, which can be roughly divided into three major groups: (1) collocations, which are syntagmatic relationships, such as ‘do x, nave x, or being in the state of x’, (trade) = conduct (trade) or (anger) = feel (anger), (2) substitutions, i.e. paradigmatic relationships, e.g. ‘a lexeme whose meaning is opposite to x’, (appear) = disappear, (courage) = cowardice, and (3) other prototypical relationships, ‘head of what is denoted by x’, (university) = rector, (tribe) = chief. While studying the combinatorial capabilities of a word and its most ‘idiomatic’ collocations, the student can get a feel for semantic fields and obtain structured access to the vocabulary and its syntactic expression in the foreign language. The strict separation of the CALL program and the underlying database facilitates the expansion of the linguistic resources on the one hand and the adaptation or the linguistic games to new didactic approaches on the other hand. This paper highlights the function of the database in the background of the program and the treatment of illrormed student input. Although some adjustments were made during the course of the project, a more flexible approach seems necessary. Here we envisage a component separate from, but interacting with the database, allowing for a more robust treatment of ill-formed input.

TIER 3 RESPONSE FOR SOUTH AMERICA

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-47
Author(s):  
Isaac Wegner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
South America ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Investment Plan ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Operations And Maintenance ◽  
Set Up ◽  
One Year ◽  
Tier 3

ABSTRACT As an integral part of the new investment plan for the improvement of the Company'S environmental management capacity, Petrobras has set up then Environmental Defense Centers throughout important Brazilian regions. The Centers are endowed with ca. R$133 million investment for facilities and gear, and ca. R$ 65 million are to be devoted to operations and maintenance for one-year period. These Defense Centers are capable of facing the main emergencies that may spring out of oil and oil by-product spills. Together, they make up South America'S first environmental safety complex, a system that is fully capable of even providing services to other companies, thus foreseeing a demand that will certainly come through as oil E&P activities in the region grow.

scholarly journals Best Practice of Benchmarking of World’s Top Universities: Lessons for Higher Educational Institutions of Uzbekistan

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Nargiza Shamshieva Nosirkhodjaevna
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Current State

The significance of the higher education can be seen in terms of assisting the economy with skillful specialists who are considered to be the key force for the development of the country. Higher education is considered to be crucial in modern market-based economies. Particularly, the higher education enables the development and maintenance of the knowledge acquired by the youth. Higher education contributes to the development of the human capital, which can later act as crucial aspect of growth. This paper takes a broad perspective on the importance of higher education, precisely to the structure of Master’s degree programs, in many developed countries of the world including USA, UK and Germany. The paper uses the benchmarking method in order to analyze and apply practices of higher education systems in Uzbekistan. It is important to note that current state of higher education institutions in Uzbekistan reflects the practice of former Soviet Union institutions and needs to adopt strategies that are followed by world’s top universities. The main purpose of this paper is to critically examine the practices and evaluating the higher education system of these countries. The outcomes of the analysis are used to offer a framework for the development of higher education systems precisely in the context of masters programs, in Uzbekistan.

scholarly journals Neoliberalism and Kazakhstan's emerging higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (Winter) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Nazgul Bayetova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Physical Size ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Central Asian Countries ◽  
The Republic

The Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union. The ninth largest country in the world in physical size with a population of over 17 million people and significant oil, iron ore, coal, copper, and gas reserves, Kazakhstan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In the early 1990s, the Supreme Court of the Kazakh Social Soviet Republic declared the transition of a planned economy to a market economy. Kazakhstan’s market system has significantly impacted its emerging higher education system. Less government spending and the creation of private universities in Kazakhstan were the core strategies that have been implemented under the neoliberal policies of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s president from independence to this year (1991-2019).

Mutual Relations between Sheliḥim and Local Teachers at Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union

2009 ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
Ira Dashevsky ◽  
Uriel Ta’ir
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
World View ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Secular World ◽  
Jewish Schools ◽  
Mutual Relations

This chapter discusses the Heftzibah programme. This programme brings together professional teachers (local as well as sheliḥim) of very different social, cultural, and personal backgrounds. Even among the sheliḥim themselves there is great diversity: some are just starting out on their path in education, while others are close to retirement; some are parents whose children will accompany them on their assignments, others are single or divorced; some are fluent in Russian while others, born in Israel, are taking their first steps in the new language; bearers of a secular world-view have colleagues who are strictly Orthodox or traditional; Ashkenazim work alongside Sephardim. What is common to them all is a sense of mission: a will to pass Jewish and Zionist knowledge on to students in Jewish schools in the FSU. In addition, every shaliaḥ must be in possession of a teaching diploma recognized by the Israeli ministry of education, and at least five years' proven experience in educational work with children.

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