Rita Kaša

Biographic Data

ID4085179
NAMERita Kaša
GIVEN NAMESRita
FAMILY NAMEKaša
SIGNATUREKAŠA R
AFFILIATIONSNazarbayev University
ORCID0000-0002-4479-9315
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The impact of the digital divide on synchronous online teaching in Kazakhstan during Covid-19 school closures

    Open AccessAida Amir, Aida Amirova et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2023

    This paper examines how factors associated with the digital divide such as ICT access, digital skills, and outcomes influenced synchronous online teaching in urban and rural schools in Kazakhstan during COVID-19 school closures. In addition to school location, this paper addresses how the speed and steadiness of the internet connection, and teacher characteristics such as age, qualification, and experience influenced teacher usage of synchronous …

  • Controlled autonomy

    Open AccessRita Kaša, Ali Ait Si MhamedARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023Cited by: 1References: 3

  • The profile of Latvian global graduates as ‘liquid migrants’

    Rita KašaARTICLEGlobalisation Societies and…2022References: 4

    This paper empirically examines whether former international students, i.e., global graduates, are more likely to be ‘liquid migrants’ than those who hold higher education degrees from home and the factors which enable or inhibit transnational mobility among global graduates. Based on an analysis of a subsample from a large-scale web survey of Latvian migrants, this paper finds that highly-skilled Latvian and global graduates represent two differ…

  • Factors motivating the transfer of university students in Kazakhstan

    Rita Kaša, Ali Ait Si Mhamed et al.ARTICLECentral Asian Survey2022References: 41

    The theoretical frameworks developed for, and applied to, the study of student transfer between higher education institutions build on evidence from Western contexts, specifically the United States. The current article contributes to understanding factors that drive student transfer in the Central Asian context, specifically that of Kazakhstan. Through inductive coding of qualitative interviews with undergraduate transfer students in Kazakhstan, …

  • Stability, performance and innovation orientation of a higher education funding model in Kazakhstan

    Open AccessAli Ait Si Mhamed, Hans Vossensteyn et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021References: 3

  • Planting the seeds for inclusive education

    Janet Helmer, Rita Kaša et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020Cited by: 1References: 2

    A Non-Government Organisation (NGO) in Kazakhstan introduced a pilot project to support schools through school-based resource centres for inclusive education as requested by the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES). This initiative came about as a way to support the State Program for the Development of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2016-2019 (MoES) that set the goal of having 70% of mainstream schools inclusive by th…

  • The Emigrant Communities of Latvia

    Open AccessRita Kaša, Inta MieriņaEDITORBOOKThe Emigrant Communities of Latvia2019

    This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration in their home country

  • Conditioned Entrepreneurialism

    Rita Kaša, Mari Elken et al.ARTICLEEuropean Education2019References: 23

    Drawing on comparative data from five universities in Latvia and Norway, this article examines universities’ strategic responses to a policy environment that calls for more entrepreneurial approaches in organizing research activity in higher education. This study concludes that strategic responses of universities to pressures for entrepreneurialism vary not only depending on the national policy context but also depending on the institution’s prof…

  • Latvijas emigrantu kopienas

    Matthew Kott, Tehniskais Redaktors et al.BOOKLatvijas emigrantu kopienas2015

    Monogrāfija izstrādāta un izdota ar Eiropas Sociālā fonda finansiālu atbalstu projekta «Latvijas emigrantu kopienas: nacionālā identitāte, transnacionālās attiecības un diasporas politika» (vienošanās Nr. 2013/0055/1DP/1.1.1.2.0/13/APIA/VIAA/040) ietvaros

  • Language Policy and the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Baltic Countries

    Rita Kaša, Ali Ait Si MhamedARTICLEEuropean Education2013Cited by: 1References: 18

    In the framework of the internationalization and globalization of higher education and competition for international students, the paper examines how language policy in higher education shapes the provision of study programs in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It concludes that study programs in the Baltic states mostly follow the convention of a monolingual curriculum offered in the official national language, or Russian, as the largest minority …

  • Aspects of Fiscal Federalism in Higher Education Cost Sharing in Latvia

    Rita KašaARTICLEPeabody Journal of Education2008References: 1

    This case study explores devolution of low-income student subsidies, via the national student loans program, from the central to local governments in Latvia by means of decentralizing political and financial responsibility to provide public assistance to low-income students in obtaining funds for higher education. It describes municipal engagement in providing primary loan guarantees and in assuming full risk for low-income student loans. This ar…