RoadMap for the Development of Education in Kazakhstan: Higher Education Roadmap Recommendations

This document presents a set of recommendations for the Roadmap Project of the Republic of Kazakhstan developed by the Higher Education Project Team (Mary Canning, Joni Finney, Dennis Jones and Aims McGuinness). It is based on the July 2013 report Development of Strategic Directions for Education Reforms in Kazakhstan for 2015-2020.and on the reports of the Steering Committee

DIAGNOSTIC REPORT

The final report on the first phase (2013) of the “Development of the strategic directions for education reform in Kazakh- stan for 2015-2020” project was implemented by the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The purpose of this research is to conduct a diagnosis of the education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the educational system and the subsequent identification of areas for further modernization at each level

DIAGNOSTIC REPORT

The final report on the first phase (2013) of the “Development of the strategic directions for education reform in Kazakh- stan for 2015-2020” project was implemented by the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The purpose of this research is to conduct a diagnosis of the education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the educational system and the subsequent identification of areas for further modernization at each level

In the path of empire: Labor, land, and liberty in Panama during the California Gold Rush, 1848--1860.

This study investigates the remaking of Panama into a nexus of the global economy. It draws on Spanish and English-language sources from archives in Panama, Colombia, and the United States to reveal the importance of micro-level struggles in the creation of new circuits of capital, people, and ideas. Driven by the desire to reach California quickly, thousands of North Americans crossed Panama during the Gold Rush. This influx of people unleashed struggles over the transit route, land, and the role of race in Panamanian society. Through analysis of a riot in Panama City in 1856, the Watermelon Slice Incident, the thesis exposes how new relationships were forged among Panamanian boatmen, West Indian railroad workers, shipping magnates, intellectuals in Bogota, and forty-niners bound for California. While the Gold Rush raised hopes across Panamanian society, those hopes were mostly dashed by the mid-1850s, as a U.S. railroad company tightened its control over the Panamanian transit economy. Born in part out of those disappointed hopes, the riot of 1856 alarmed political leaders in Panama and elsewhere in South America, some of whom called upon novel notions of Latin unity to halt U.S. expansion. By linking events in Panama and California to the diffusion of Latin America as a geohistorical category, the dissertation reveals how experiences of space were transformed on multiple levels in the Americas during the Gold Rush era.Ph.D.American historyLatin American historyModern historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/126044/2/3016916.pd