An international forum on bilingual education has started in Bishkek

BISHKEK, September 26 — Sputnik. The international forum "Bilingual education today: global challenges and effective practices" has started at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University.

The event was organized by KRSU together with the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after P. Lumumba with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation of the Kyrgyz Republic and the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Kyrgyzstan.

The forum will become a large-scale platform for dialogue between teachers, scientists, government officials and educational organizations about the role of bilingual education in the face of global challenges. More than 900 teachers and managers participate in the event, 300 of them — in person. Delegations from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Abkhazia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are registered. A total of 263 educational organizations are registered: 197 schools, 59 universities and 7 colleges. More details