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News Turkmenistan » Education: Turkmenistan striving to raise higher education standards

News channel or source: https://eurasianet.org/turkmenistan-striving-to-raise-higher-education-standards

Published on: Tuesday 20 October 2026

Long viewed as an educational backwater, Turkmenistan is advancing ambitious plans to modernize and integrate its higher education system into the global mainstream.

News Turkmenistan » Education: Meeting of Education Ministers of Central Asian Countries and Mongolia Held in Turkmenistan

News channel or source: https://turkmenistan.gov.tm/en/post/111264/meeting-education-ministers-central-asian-countries-and-mongolia-held-turkmenistan

Published on: Friday 23 October 2026

On October 22, the Turkmen capital hosted a roundtable discussion involving the education ministers of the Central Asian countries and Mongolia. The participants discussed the current state of ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: Turkmenistan and Russia step up humanitarian and academic cooperation

News channel or source: https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/170012-turkmenistan-russia-digital-education-exchange/

Published on: Wednesday 14 October 2026

Discover how Turkmenistan and Russia are revolutionizing student quota applications with a new digital platform, streamlining access to higher education abroad.

News Turkmenistan » Education: Turkmenistan: Education System Proves Stubbornly Resistant to Reform

News channel or source: https://eurasianet.org/turkmenistan-education-system-proves-stubbornly-resistant-to-reform

Published on: Monday 22 October 2007

Turkmenistan's new leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has cultivated an image as a cautious reformer - mainly through a pledge to improve the Central Asian nation's education system. Initial steps to ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: Turkmenistan to introduce 12-year system in schools and add paid for education

News channel or source: https://www.trend.az/casia/turkmenistan/2080424.html

Published on: Wednesday 24 October 2012

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov invited the Government to consider extending the period of study in secondary schools to 12 years and the introduction of private education, local ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: Turkmen Lecturers Study Japan’s Experience in Engineering Education

News channel or source: https://turkmenistan.gov.tm/en/post/110936/turkmen-lecturers-study-japans-experience-engineering-education

Published on: Tuesday 13 October 2026

Lecturers from the Oguz Han Engineering and Technology University of Turkmenistan are participating in an international training programme entitled “Improving Teaching Methods for Engineering ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: Practical Conference "EU-Turkmenistan cooperation in the field of education" conducted in Turkmenistan

News channel or source: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/turkmenistan/practical-conference-eu-turkmenistan-cooperation-field-education-conducted-turkmenistan_en?s=231

Published on: Wednesday 19 November 2008

The Delegation of the European Union to Turkmenistan held a practical conference "EU-Turkmenistan cooperation in the field of education" on 2 November 2022 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The objective of ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: Turkmenistan: Ministry of Education clamps down on students

News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/2009/08/16/turkmenistan-ministry-of-education-clamps-down-on-students/

Published on: Saturday 15 August 2009

Orazdurdy reports that dozens of students at Ashgabat (capital of Turkmenistan) airport were not allowed on board a plane heading to Almaty. This is the latest incident in a broader trend: hundreds of ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: Russia and Turkmenistan are entering a new level of cooperation in the field of higher education

News channel or source: https://www.akm.ru/eng/press/russia-and-turkmenistan-are-entering-a-new-level-of-cooperation-in-the-field-of-higher-education/

Published on: Thursday 12 October 2023

On the sidelines of the meeting of the Co-Chairs of the Intergovernmental Russian-Turkmen Commission for Economic Cooperation in Ashgabat, a meeting was held between Deputy Head of the Ministry of ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: New education minister appointed in Turkmenistan

News channel or source: https://www.trend.az/casia/turkmenistan/2380231.html

Published on: Saturday 04 April 2015

Turkmenistan named its new education minister. According to the Turkmen president's decree, issued April 4, Purli Agamyradov was appointed the country's minister of education. Agamyradov previously ...

News Turkmenistan » Education: Turkmenistan: Challenges for education

News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/2011/09/09/turkmenistan-challenges-for-education/

Published on: Thursday 08 September 2011

Annasoltan talks with a professional teacher in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, about education’s challenges in this country, from shifting generational and cultural values to corruption in the schools.

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