Seminar and discussion on action research in Kazakhstan by Dr Kairat Kurakbayev and Darkhan Bilyalov..

Dr Žilvinas Martinaitis talks about measuring skills in Europe.

Dr Liz Winter talks about a case study of the Unified National Test (UNT) in Kazakhstan.

Seminar presenter: Dr Olena Fimyar

Seminar presenter: Professor David Bridges

Kazakhstan Programme Research Team and the Faculty of

Education were delighted to welcome Iveta Silova to Cambridge with a short

research visit, during which she delivered two seminars and had individual

meetings with PhD students and staff. Iveta Silova is an Associate

Professor and Director of Comparative and International Education program

at the College of Education, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Her

research and publications cover a range of issues critical to understanding

post-socialist education transformation processes in the context of

globalization, including gender equity trends in Eastern/Central Europe and

Central Asia, minority/multicultural education policies in the former

Soviet Union, as well as the scope, nature, and implications of private

tutoring in a cross-national perspective. Iveta is the co-editor (with Noah

W. Sobe) of a quarterly peer-reviewed journal *"European Education: Issues

and Studies.". *

Iveta’s recent books include:

*- Globalization on the Margins* *(2011)*

*- Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)reading the global in comparative

education (2010)*

*- How NGOs React: Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus,

Central Asia, and Mongolia* *(2008 *coedited with Gita Steiner-Khamsi),

*- From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism:

Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia* *(2006)*

Kazakhstan Programme Research Team and the Faculty of

Education were delighted to welcome Iveta Silova to Cambridge with a short

research visit, during which she delivered two seminars and had individual

meetings with PhD students and staff. Iveta Silova is an Associate

Professor and Director of Comparative and International Education program

at the College of Education, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Her

research and publications cover a range of issues critical to understanding

post-socialist education transformation processes in the context of

globalization, including gender equity trends in Eastern/Central Europe and

Central Asia, minority/multicultural education policies in the former

Soviet Union, as well as the scope, nature, and implications of private

tutoring in a cross-national perspective. Iveta is the co-editor (with Noah

W. Sobe) of a quarterly peer-reviewed journal *"European Education: Issues

and Studies.". *

Iveta’s recent books include:

*- Globalization on the Margins* *(2011)*

*- Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)reading the global in comparative

education (2010)*

*- How NGOs React: Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus,

Central Asia, and Mongolia* *(2008 *coedited with Gita Steiner-Khamsi),

*- From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism:

Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia* *(2006)*

This is a recording of the seminar on 'Higher Education Reform in Lithuania: Marketisation and administration versus democratisation?' delivered by two invited Professors from Kaunas University of Technology, Palmira Jucevičienė and Robertas Jucevičius. The seminar took place on Monday, 19 November 2012. The seminar was chaired by Olena Fimyar. Professor David Bridges acted as discussant.

(A short description of the current audio) At this seminar Olena Fimyar discusses her work published in I. Silova (ed.) (2010) Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)reading the global in comparative education, Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 61-91. Link to the chapter: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=14793679&volume=14&chapterid=1905476&show=abstract

An introductory video about The HertsCam Network project here in the United Kingdom.