ICEF Central Asia Focus 2017 – Almaty

AGENT PANEL: Recruiting from Central Asia and the Caucasus – Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and

Sergey Krasnyanskiy March 13, 2017 Almaty, Kazakhstan Director CIS Session Speakers

Ms Olga Kurinina - Academic Counsellor at Schwarzthal Kapital - Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

Mr Vladimir Dolgiy, Director at World of Education, Uzbekistan

Ms Gulnar Kaskenova, Director at Langberry - Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Central Asia and the Caucasus – Overview Central Asia and the Caucasus – Facts

Official Name: Central Asia and the Caucasus Countries § Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, § Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Ethnic Groups: Eastern Turkic, Eastern Iranian, Mongolian and Slavic people Languages: Turkic, Middle Iranian, Indo-European languages and Russian as lingua franca Population: 88 million Government Type: Democracies, particularly quite authoritarian Economy: Oil, gas, natural resources, agriculture and some industrial projects Central Asia and the Caucasus – Market

Big reserves of natural resources Growing population (Population Reference Bureau (USA): by 2030 the population in the Central Asia is expected to increase to 82 million and in the Caucasus to 19 million) The population is very young, i.e. the middle age in Uzbekistan, with it’s regions’ largest population of 31 million people, is 27 years Lack of capacities at local higher education institutions Several education abroad programs with governmental support Established agents’ network with ist‘ recognized and popular services 34 officially recognized ICEF agents in Azerbaijan, 97 in Kazakhstan, 17 in Kyrgyzstan and 49 in Uzbekistan

ICEF Central Asia Focus 2017 – Almaty

Recruiting Students in Kyrgyzstan

Presented by Olga Kurinina Academic Counsellor at Schwarzthal Kapital - Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan Main cities: Bishkek, Osh Population is 6 million (children up to 18 years - 36,3 %, students -4,2%) Studying abroad around 6000

Schwarzthal Kapital- Central Asia

• Pre-school for age 3 to 6-7 (not compulsory, only 10% enrolled). • Primary School starts at 6 – 7 years, lasts four years and is compulsory • Secondary school lasts for 7 years, after five years of lower secondary school, the system offers two years of upper secondary school, specialized secondary school, or vocational/technical school. • The Ministry of Education and Science (MES) is in charge of Education in Kyrgyzstan • Students have then the choice between comprehensive and vocation Education. • Comprehensive Education is constituted of a 2 two year curriculum, which grants - a certificate of completion («attestat»). The certificate is generally required in order to join a university. • Vocational Education is given in Professional lyceum and vocational technical colleges School system

Schwarzthal Kapital- Central Asia • Higher Education includes universities, academies, specialized higher education institutes and institutes. • Secondary professional education is through colleges and technicums for up to 4 years, of which 2 are exempt if secondary school has been completed. • Undergraduate lasts 4 years (Bachelor degree (Bakalavr) and graduate programs, Master (Magistr) up to 2 years. • A «specialist degree» a 5 (or 6 for medical and architecture studies) years. • The specialist and the master degrees both open the door to PhD programs (aspirantura).

Higher education

Schwarzthal Kapital- Central Asia

• Tajikistan: 150 • USA: 250 • Germany: 500 • Russia: 3500 • Saudi Arabia: 300 • Kazakhstan:450 • France:100 • Malaysia: 70 • Czech republic: 100 • Japan and Korea: 150 • Canada: 80 • UK: 80-90 • Other European countries: around 200 Enrolled students in 2016 Program choice Schwarzthal Kapital- Central Asia

Ø Ranking of the educational institution Ø Location (basically big cities) Ø Excellent study facilities Ø Work placement after graduation Ø Staying in the country ( immigrate) Ø Students’ satisfaction Students’ expectations

Schwarzthal Kapital- Central Asia Thank you!

Ms Olga Kurinina Academic Counsellor

Schwarzthal Kapital - Central Asia 1A Kulatov Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Tel.: +996-312-534650

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: ww.schwarzthal.kg ICEF Central Asia Focus 2017 – Almaty

Recruiting Students in Uzbekistan

Presented by Vladimir Dolgiy Director at World of Education Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

• Populaon: 32 million • 34% less than 14 years old • Capital: Tashkent (4 million) • Main cies: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Urgench, Ferghana, Andijan • Languages: Uzbek, Russian, English

Uzbekistan

• 4th largest gold deposits in the world • 7th - Uranium producon • 11th – Natural gas producon Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

• High Speed Trains • Uzbekistan Airways • Lots of oil and gas projects • 1 million tourists per year • Chevrolet Producon • MAN producon Educaon

• Kinder Garden 2-6 • Primary school 7-11 (1-4th grade) • Secondary school 11-16(5th to 9th grade) • Lyceum or Colleges 16-18(10th to 12th grade) • Bachelors (4 years) • Masters (2 years) • PhD - 3 years Educaon

• 9500+ schools • 1400+ colleges and 140+ lyceums (1,7 million students) • 220+ professions, 570+ specializaons Educaon

• 59 Higher Educaon organizaons • 7 foreign – INHA (South Korea), MDIST (Singapore), Westminster (UK), Torino Polytechnical (Italy), State University (Russia), Oil and Gas Gubkin (Russia), Plekhanov Economics Academy (Russia) Educaon Abroad

• 10000+ students study abroad • Desnaons: US, UK, Europe, Malaysia, China, Russia • Business Administraon, Informaon Technologies, Design, Engineering

How to promote

• Local fairs • Social Media • Word of Mouth • Web-site Agents

• 40+ Agents • 7+ all direcons • 30+ country or region targeted • 10+ new agencies (not older than 2 years) Thank you for your aenon Any quesons? Thank you!

Mr Vladimir Dolgiy Director

World of Education Afrosiab street 14 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Tel.: +998-71-2560087

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.woe.uz

ICEF Central Asia Focus 2017 – Almaty

Recruiting Students in Azerbaijan

Presented by Gulnar Kaskenova Director at Langberry - Azerbaijan Agent Panel: Recruing from Central Asia and the Caucasus - Azerbaijan

• Geopolical background, market, educaon system • Preferences • Student expectaons Azerbaijan - Facts

• Located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia • The largest country in the Caucasus • Populaon - 9 mln

Geopolical background, market size, educaon system -30% of the Azerbaijan's populaon is under 20 -Azerbaijan is one of the fastest growing student markets in Central Asia. General secondary school educaon three levels – • primary • general secondary • full secondary educaon Higher educaon – • baccalaureate • the magistrate • doctorate

Study abroad Number of students studying abroad including future potenal and trends

- opportunity to study abroad at the governmental expense.

Two opons of the governmental financing of the foreign educaon of Azerbaijani students: 1) Financed by the Ministry of Educaon of Azerbaijan. 2) “Governmental programme for educaon of the Azerbaijani students in 2007-2015” (supported by the Governmental Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan).

Most popular courses: medicine, chemistry, physics, biology, maths. Educaonal preferences: 80% choose humanitarian facules. 26,9% study Medicine, 15% - Social Sciences and Humanies, 8,6% - IT, 5,6% - Sciences, 2,4% study in the service sector and 2% - Agriculture and construcon.

Course and desnaon preferences

• Main competors of the countries interested in aracng the Azerbaijani students-scholarship holders are Turkey, Russia, Great Britain, Germany. These • Russia countries nowadays are the most aracve for the Azerbaijani students. According to the stascs of the years, 40,8% of 2055 of • UK Azerbaijani students have studied in Turkey, 24,7% - in Russia, 6,6% - in Great Britain, 5,4% - in Germany.

• Germany Average length a student spends abroad

Educaon programmes:

High school (private school) – from 1 to 4 years

Graduate degree – baccalaureate, masters programme, MBA, doctorate – from 2 to 4 years

Language courses - from a month to a year

Student expectaons

• Personal development

• Academic Commitment

• Intercultural development

• Career development Thank you!

Ms Gulnar Kaskenova Director

Langberry – Azerbaijan 56a Rashid Behbudov St , Azerbaijan

Tel.: +998-71-2560087

Email: [email protected]

Web:http://langberry.az

Thank you!

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