The latest edition of OCA Magazine (UK) focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing education in Central Asia, the CIS, and neighbouring regions. The special issue, OCA Magazine: Education, explores digital transformation, women’s access to higher education, and the drive to modernise universities in a fast-changing global environment.
The special edition includes success stories from Kazakhstan’s Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical Research University, where AI, digital campuses, and international double-degree programmes are reshaping learning. The issue also features insights from British tourism expert, Sophie Ibbotson, who predicts that by 2033, tourism in Uzbekistan could generate over 290,000 direct jobs, making hospitality and creative education a national priority.
The Methodica School and Tashkent International School, pioneers of innovative and multicultural learning, are also in the spotlight, as well as Tajikistan’s cultural renaissance, where music education and the work of composer Tolibkhon Shakhidi exemplify the fusion of tradition and modernisation.
The edition, supported by Hertfordshire Press and the Eurasian Creative Guild (London), is distributed to universities, diplomatic missions, and cultural institutions worldwide. A digital version is available at ocamagazine.com.
