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Turkmenistan

Summary

There is an enormous concern to develop adequate means for developing the region's potential in education. After an initial period of rejecting everything from the recent past and a rush to indiscriminately adopt everything foreign, the transition is gradually moving from the present centralized system to one that emphasizes national identity and diversity. Following are some of the new directions that have been adopted as new educational laws within the Central Asian countries:

  1. Reducing the length of compulsory education from eleven to nine years, in order to avoid educational wastage.
  2. Allowing private and other types of non-public education at all levels.
  3. Gradually introducing tuition fees in higher education and various types of user fees at lower fees.
  4. Discontinuing the practice of guaranteed employment for graduates.
  5. Converting from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet and promoting the use of local languages for instruction.

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—Virginia Davis Nordin

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