Chapter 16: Straddling Market and State: Higher Education Governance and Finance Reform in Kazakhstan

How private are private universities in reality? How free is the higher education market? How responsive can universities be to the demands of the labor market? This essay attempts to answer these questions, and it concludes that private universities in Kazakhstan in reality are usually for profit proprietary schools. Government agencies continue to control university content, the size of program subsidies, and the distribution of resources to both public and private institutions.