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Aug 13, 2024

Global Treks: Back to Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan

Program Highlights Since January 2021, GTI has trained more than 350 English language teachers in Azerbaijan through a rigorous online course focused on language teaching pedagogies. Our role is not…

Apr 11, 2024

Transforming English Language Education in Azerbaijan

There’s an oft-repeated saying that “teachers teach the way they were taught” and this appears to hold true for teachers across the globe. Chinara Ibrahimova saw how that was the…
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Jul 7, 2022

To Baku and Back

In late June of 2022, I traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan with other NC State faculty and GTI instructors to coordinate and host a 3-day conference and lecture series at ADA…

Aug 9, 2023

From the Brickyard to Baku

NC State’s Global Training Initiative partners with organizations, businesses and government agencies, recently stretching to the far edge of Eastern Europe.

Dec 5, 2022

Staff Professional Development in Beautiful Basque

North Carolina State University participated in the 2022 Staff Training Week at one of our partner universities, Universidad País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), a university in Northern Spain.…

Apr 2, 2025

NC State’s GTI Program Expands Global Teaching Opportunities and Scholarship

NC State University’s Global Training Initiative (GTI) has made a significant impact on international education through its Professional Development (PD) program for English Language Teachers in Azerbaijan. The initiative has…

Mar 21, 2022

NC State Expands Exchanges with Saudi Arabia

What started as a research collaboration between two computer science scholars nearly 10 years ago is now the foundation for a series of research and academic exchanges between NC State University and King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Professor George Rouskas, director of graduate programs for NC State’s Department of Computer Science, has already co-authored…
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Feb 16, 2021

Teaching Teachers Half A World Away

NC State graduate student Amanda Baker never met anyone from Azerbaijan before last month, but she now regularly logs into bi-weekly Zoom sessions with around 100 Azerbaijanis. Baker, a student in the Master of International Studies program, is working with […]

Jan 28, 2020

Global Skills in the Workplace

Recipients of our Global Skills Certification Training are already starting to put their knowledge and skills to work. Registration is open for the spring certification workshop series.