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2012-2013 Global UGRAD program PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 December 2011 09:13

 

2012-2013 Global UGRAD program is available now. Please click on the link below. We encourage you to apply online by using the “Apply Now” link on the right side of that page.

http://www.irex.org/application/global-undergraduate-exchange-program-eurasia-and-central-asia-global-ugrad-fellowship-a

If you have any friends or classmates who are interested in applying please forward this email to them as well.

Also if you would like to watch the UGRAD recruitment video please click on the below link.

http://www.irex.org/project/global-undergraduate-exchange-program-eurasia-and-central-asia-global-ugrad ,

If you have any questions about the application or The Global UGRAD program please contact Zagipa Satiyeva at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 December 2011 09:14
 
Training on “Tips on writing an outstanding essay and CV, preparing for the interview and plagiarism policy” by Muskie alumna, Aliya Bizhanova PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 31 October 2011 09:33

 

Training on “Tips on writing an outstanding essay and CV, preparing for the interview and plagiarism policy” by Muskie alumna, Aliya Bizhanova

Aliya Bizhanova, Muskie 2009 alumna, (M.Ed. in International Education Policy and Management) and the founder of World Exchange held a training on “Tips on writing an outstanding essay and CV, preparing for the interview and plagiarism policy” on Oct, 27 at IREX office. The training was well attended and proved to be very helpful for the participants. Aliya talked about writing essays, preparing for interviews and plagiarism regulations. She gave practical tips for those who are going to apply for Muskie or Ugrad. Later Aliya answered all the questions of the participants. The training ended up with a discussion of the topics raised during the training. As participants confessed the training was very useful as they got practical advice from a “fresh” Muskie alumna who went through all this.

 

Last Updated on Monday, 31 October 2011 09:34
 
Professional Development Training PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 05 September 2011 10:03

IREX Kazakhstan field office held a Professional Development Training: Applying for Small Grants for Muskie and Ugrad alumni on September, 3.The training was led by IREX staff in the IREX office. It was attended by 4 alumni. The training went really well; it covered information on ASG, PS, Muskie MAX and CAPS. Participants practiced writing and presenting their proposals for ASG. They got introduced with the project lifecycle and basic stages of the project management through a project phase game. The training was attended by former ASG and PS finalist Zhanar Zhaxylykova who gave a presentation on her projects. She shared her experience in writing project proposal, in implementing her projects and answered all questions that the participants had. IREX staff is thankful for all the participants for attending the training and for Zhanar Zhaxylykova who kindly agreed to give the presentation.

Last Updated on Monday, 05 September 2011 10:05
 
Edmund Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program available now PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 09:26

 

We’re pleased to announce that applications are now available for the U.S. Department of State’s 2012 Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program.  Application materials, including instructions and complete eligibility requirements, are online.

http://www.irex.org/application/edmund-s-muskie-graduate-fellowship-program-application


The Muskie Program brings emerging leaders in key professional fields from Eurasia to the United States for one to two years of graduate study at institutions across the United States.  Through their academic studies, internships, and community service, fellows develop connections with Americans and make direct linkages with American universities, businesses, social-service organizations, schools, and other institutions, allowing them to develop a deeper understanding of U.S. values and ideals, such as democratic leadership.

 

Feel free to contact us if you have questions.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 09:28
 
Guest-lecture on “Kloop: young Kyrgyz journalists who cover serious issues.” PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 31 August 2011 12:06

On Saturday, August 27th, at IREX Kazakhstan office in Almaty held a meeting with Bektour Iskender, representative of Kyrgyzstan media and co-founder of Kloop. Kloop is a news website, where everything is written by young and beginning journalists. Despite this, Kloop covers all of the most serious events happening in the country, and has become a unique product that is needed to everyone. The events covered include: Revolution of 2010, ethnic conflicts in Osh in 2010, all the elections, investigations about torture in the police and GKNB, also a lot of events related to social issues, technology development, and cultural events.


Kloop is sponsored by Hivos, and is created by the Kloop Media Foundation in partnership with the Children's Media Centre, an experienced youth media organization from Bishkek. Kloop Media is most famous for Kloop - news and blogging platform run by young people - and also for its Journalism School, one of the leading media education institutions in Central Asia.
Bektour started his presentation by talking about serious current problems in KG and KZ journalism, especially issues related to the lack of accuracy in preparing news, by showing real examples, when journalists did not check several resources before publishing the news and thus led to making readers doubt in credibility of famous KG and KZ informative agencies (Kazakhstan today, AKI press). He argued that journalists should be skeptical about any information they get, use critical thinking and analyzing skills and try to check information in details before publishing it.
He talked about ethics in journalism and especially noted that journalists should not support any conflicting sides in articles and try to be objective and unbiased in covering different issues.
Also Bektour shared his experience and ideas on proper usage of social networks while publishing materials. He shared with attendees information on Kloop’s sites in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan (www.kloop.kz and www.kloop.tj) , and interested young people were invited to write news articles for these portals as the Kloop’s main aim is to help young people be professional journalists and handle proper covering serious issues in their countries and thus foster development of citizen journalism.
Not only did Bektour show attendees different mistakes found on websites of inform agencies, leading newspapers, and magazines, but also shared his own experience in starting his career as a journalist in Central Asian country, all the challenges he faced and he gave practical advices and answered questions of people who came.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 12:08
 
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