PROG. INFO.- MA Program in Educational and Cultural Policy, University of Tsukuba

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PROG. INFO.- MA Program in Educational and Cultural Policy, Univ. of Tsukuba

Posted by: Timur Dadabaev <dadabaev@chiiki.tsukuba.ac.jp>

Program: One-Year MA Program in Educational and Cultural Policy for
Central Asian Countries in the University of Tsukuba, Japan

DEADLINE is on January 15, 2008.

Graduate School of International Area Studies at the University of
Tsukuba is pleased to announce an open competition for its 1 year MA
Program in Educational and Cultural Policy for Central Asian Countries.

This program aims to strengthen the capacity in educational and
cultural policy formulation in this CA region by training the staff
members to contribute both to the formulation and implementation of
effective educational and cultural policies and to the task of
analyzing implications of such policies within the universities,
governmental institutions and agencies in CA. This program targets
primarily junior staff members of Education and Cultural Ministries,
Agencies and Funds related to the field of policy formulation in the
areas of education and culture and graduate students of the CA
universities involved in policy studies in the areas mentioned above.
Those selected for this program will have an opportunity to enroll
into one year MA program in the University of Tsukuba and enhance
their knowledge in educational and cultural policy fields.

Taking into account that the majority of the faculty members and
students in CA possess limited knowledge of Japanese language, the
educational curriculum in the University of Tsukuba offers them a
unique chance of obtaining the first-hand information and knowledge
through offering them three trimester based comprehensive
English-language graduate education in addition to a number of
Japanese language courses available. The primary target countries for
this program are Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and
Turkmenistan. Each year, four students from five regional countries
will have an opportunity to enroll into educational and professional
development programs on a Japanese scholarship-based scheme with
additional 6 students on a self- or alternatively financed schemes. In
addition to the eligibility requirement outlined in the detailed
package of this program, the age requirement for those applying for
the scholarship is for applicants to be born after April 2, 1973.

Note that those candidates applying for the Special Program for
Central Asian Countries are ineligible to apply for this program. If
candidates are eligible to apply for both programs, they will have to
choose only one per time.

For details of this program, please refer to
http://www.chiiki.tsukuba.ac.jp or to
http://www.chiiki.tsukuba.ac.jp/admission/centrralasianprogram

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