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According to the news – Indiana University said that they are chosen by U.S. State Department to make master’s degree program in English instruction in Afghanistan.

The officials said that Indiana University received the grant of almost $3.5 million for the three-year project. The program will be at Kabul Education University.

Professor of curriculum and instruction and director of the Center for Social Studies and International Education Terry Mason will head the project.

Professor of literacy, culture and language education Mitzi Lewison and Professor of curriculum and instruction and director of the Center for Social Studies and International Education Terry Mason will head the project
Lewison and Mason have already been involved setting up master’s program in teaching and in bringing Afghan academics to Indiana.

Mason said that its intent is to train qualified English faculty members for the numerous institutions of higher education around the country. It’s seen as an important program for not just providing access to the language itself, but also for affecting the way teaching is carried out.

According to the news – Last Sunday, Alexander Toradze at Indiana University student, Nikita Abrosimov won Gold Medal and 10,000 at the Cincinnati based World Piano competition held at the Aronoff Center Downtown.

He performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The assistant of CSO Ken Lam conducted the World Festival Orchestra. Aside from Abrosimov, Alexandra Beliakovich and Tian Lu also received award. They got the silver medals.

Abrosimov will perform New York concert in Alice Tully Hall in the spring of 2013 at Lincoln Center. On October 17-18 he will go back to Cincinnati for Dinner Concert and Bach Beethoven Brahms Educational Outreach Program. On December 5-6 will return to perform and Tian Lu on January 9-10.

The judges of the competition were Oksoo Han coming from Dankook University of South Korea, Timothy Ehlen, the winner of world piano in 1988 and winner of George Vatchnadze of the Republic of Georgia in 1997. He came from University of Illinois School of Music Urbana Champaign