Students Push for Higher Standards Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan Krygyz universities face serious challenges around issues of transparency and educational standards. Launched in February, 2009, the Improving the Quality of Higher Education Initiative builds the capacity of student bodies to address needs, and assess and improve transparency and the quality of education. At a March, 2009, conference, school administrators and student activists learned that a number of corruption-related problems had been uncovered at six pilot universities.

The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), a partnership between Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York and local universities, recently conducted a nationwide survey on Georgians’ general political views and attitudes towards the protests.