The Economist (US), July 24th, 2004
A catastrophic education policy
IF YOU are a poor country in Central Asia, why sack your best-educated people? Earlier this year, the authorities in Turkmenistan said that they would do just that. From June, degrees obtained abroad since 1993 would not be recognised. Some of the graduates received letters warning them of their imminent dismissal. This threatens to damage schools, ministries and hospitals in a country already weakened by a decade of misbegotten educational "reform".
Turkmenistan inherited a solid Soviet education system, but chose after independence in 1991 to switch from t...
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