Creating a world-class university in Central Asia

captureA new paper by Emma Sabzalieva looks at the policies of the Kazakhstani government towards a recently founded institution, Nazarbayev University. The government seeks to position Kazakhstan as a credible global knowledge economy, but also use the university as a means of fulfilling domestic nation-building objectives. The paper discusses what it means to be a world-class university in this Central Asian country. Access the full paper here.

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Creso Sá is Distinguished Professor and Vice-Dean, Academic Operations at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as Acting Dean of OISE.

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