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Five issues that matter to Kyrgyzstan’s Girl-Activists
Kyrgyzstan’s devochki-activistki (girl-activists) are girls aged between 13 and 17-years-old fighting for equality, justice and diversity in a challenging environment for girls’ rights.
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Kyrgyzstan seeks a new scientific method
Proposals call for a radical shakeup of a withering science establishment.
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Kyrgyzstan’s Russian-language teaching getting squeezed out
In November, a Kyrgyz news agency posted a news story in Russian about the falling number of Russian-speaking schoolteachers in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city.
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Estonian television raises red flags over Russia-sponsored youth camp
Ethnic Russian teenagers from Estonia are being militarized at youth camps organized in conjunction with Russian federal agencies, according to Estonian public broadcaster ERR.
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Kyrgyzstani lawmakers demand action on underpaid teachers
Kyrgyzstan is facing a shortage of teachers, as fewer graduates are willing to endure rock-bottom pay and poor teaching conditions, EurasiaNet.org reports.
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The Kyrgyzstan preschool lottery
A serious shortage of kindergartens has driven the few who can afford it into private schools of debatable quality. First in an occasional series.
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Kyrgyzstan approves standards for secondary education
Since 2006, the Educational Program of the Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan has provided technical and methodological support to the Ministry of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic in the development of educational tools to promote a competence-based approach, and the establishment of the Framework National Curriculum of Secondary Education.
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Kyrgyzstan’s Soviet-era poster child gets an iPad
When he wasn’t depicting Kyrgyzstan’s awesome nature, Semyon Chuikov, an Honoured Artist of the USSR born in what is now the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek in 1902, was always careful to make sure his artwork didn’t stray beyond the strict, socialist parameters provided for by Soviet artistic policy.
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Kyrgyzstan: Yurt preschools reach nomadic children
At first glance, it looks like another iconic felt yurt in a remote pasture high in Kyrgyzstan’s mountains. But step through the door and a visitor can quickly see it is no ordinary nomadic dwelling.
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Kyrgyzstan: Doctors alarmed as parents shun vaccination
Aisha, a mother of five, takes her seven-month-old son Ismail with her when she’s out and about in Bishkek.
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