· October, 2010

Stories about Kazakhstan from October, 2010

Kazakhstan: Fake repatrates scandal

  25 October 2010

Albika reports that several thousand ethnic Kazakh repatriates have never existed, but the government spent 300 million tenge for their benefits in result of the massive fraud.

Kazakhstan: Education System Flaws

  25 October 2010

KZBlog refects on the classc post-Soviet problem that school teachers in Kazakhstan are too often treated like members of an office staff, and their loyalty is more important than their being able to be productive.

Kazakhstan: Governance matters

  21 October 2010

Kazakh bloggers keep on discussing their favorite topic – the quality of public administration. Megakhuimyak raises the issue of professionalism of the higher officials and says that often it appears to be secondary to the “family affairs”. Cronyism remains a serious problem in Kazakhstani human resource management both in business...

Kazakhstan: A university's battle over a license

  5 October 2010

Avicenna reports on the ongoing conflict between the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research and the Ministry of Education and Science, as the latter suspended the university's license.

Kazakhstan: How Responsive is e-Government?

  4 October 2010

Askhat says that Kazakhstan performs relatively well in terms of This IT development, but warns that this does not necessarily mean that Kazakhstan’s government is using its online resource effectively.