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The EU-Central Asia Education Initiative

09/02/2010 By Peter Jones

The European Education Initiative was launched as part of the EU-Central Asia Strategy. The Initiative has prioritised Higher Education and Vocational Education and emphasised links with the Bologna Process. The slow and uncertain pace of development of the Education Initiative calls for an analysis of the logic, content and practice of this initiative.

Can the EU develop a concrete programme of implementation for it’s education initiative which could meet the real and urgent needs of the Central Asian countries?

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Projects

The EU's Central Asia Strategy

Keywords

Democracy promotion EU Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

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Bio author: Peter Jones

Peter Jones is a Lecturer in Post Compulsory Education at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. His past research has examined the development of education policy in the European Union (EU) and the impact of EU accession on education systems in Central and South-East Europe