St Petersburg State University has this year become the first Russian educational institution to make it…
Topic: education & training
News about policies and investment in education, schools, universities and training in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Central Asia
Kazakh educational robot woos London investment community
Kazakh educational robot: Indybo a start-up company that seeks to teach children the fundamentals of electronics and programming through…
Arab Development Funds pledge $700m to Uzbekistan
Arab Development Funds: A number of Arab financial institutions and development funds within the Arab Coordination…
Nazarbayev announces investment in schools, utilities and SMEs
Nazarbayev economic plan: Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev plans to channel $3bn each year for the next three…
World Bank puts $33m towards Azerbaijan higher education
Azerbaijan higher education: The World Bank has decided to allocate a loan worth $33m to Azerbaijan for…
Disabled children’s schools allocated RUB3.2bn
Disabled children’s schools: The government has allocated RUB3.2b for the creation of regional Russian educational organizations for disabled…
University subsidies capped at RUB10.15bn
University subsidies: The government has announced that it is to split RUB10.15bn between 14 universities this year to help improve…
Kazakhstan awarded energy efficiency grant
The World Bank is to issue a $21.7bn energy efficiency grant to Kazakhstan for the modernization of…
Azerbaijan high-tech start-ups to get business training support
Azerbaijan high-tech start-ups: The Azerbaijan Government has organised a series of training workshops for indigenous high-tech…