Degradation of Academic Degrees in the former Soviet Republics

The situation with granting the graduate degrees of Kandidat nauk/Doctor Nauk has approached a critical moment all over the former Soviet Republics, especcially in Russa, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

While the content and style are still the same as it was during the Soviet Union, the examination commissions have become a gate for producing non adequate graduates with doctoral degrees, who in their turn, are coming to the education system as professors. This is an absolute absurd and nonsense.

There is an urgent need to initiate an alternative accrediting and degree granting system for the former Soviet Union in collaboration with our international colleagues and partner institutions. Therefore, please join to this movement sending your Name, Country, Academic affiliations, and your contacts to askar.bekat@gmail.com, or joing the “PhD in Education” group in www.facebook.com

Thank you,

Askarbek Mambetaliev, Ed.M.
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