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Education in Mongolia

By Robert Sedgwick
Editor, WENR

Mongolia's system of education closely followed the Soviet and Eastern European model until the demise of the USSR. Since the early 1990s, it has been undergoing many changes as the country shifts from a centralized economy and one-party state system to a market-oriented economy with a more pluralistic system of government. [Continued]

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U.S. Schools Given Lead in 'Modernizing' Iraqi Higher Education U.S. universities will lead the effort of rebuilding Iraq’s war-torn higher-education sector. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in June asked U.S.-accredited institutions of higher education to submit bids for a US$30 million scheme designed to “invigorate and modernize” Iraq’s colleges and universities. Other coalition partners have been barred from submitting applications and will be involved only if lead U.S. institutions choose to “collaborate” with them. [Continued ... Read Full Story in the Middle East Section]

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The Changing Structure of Higher Education in Mongolia

By Mijid Baasanjav, Begzjav Munkhbaatar and Udval Lkhamsuren

Mongolia is situated in the heart of Central Asia bordering with the Russian Federation to the north and the People’s Republic of China to the south, east and west. About a third of the country is dominated by the Gobi Desert. Mongols make up the vast majority of the largely homogeneous population, which reached 2.3 million in 2000, with an annual growth rate of about 1.5 percent.[Continued]

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