As Georgia’s school year gets underway, the country’s polyglot president is betting a thousand native English speakers can jump start an ambitious new policy to make English Georgia’s second language.
Kazakhstan has opened a new university in the capital, Astana, with ambitious aims of eventually offering a world-class education to 20,000 students per year and of ending the practice of sending the country’s best and brightest abroad to study.
A government initiative to re-open foreign-language schools in Armenia after a 17-year ban is generating a heated public outcry. Many are concerned that the move, if implemented, would damage the country’s Armenian-language educational system.
