Supporting data for "Legacy-Innovation Challenges in Post-Soviet Higher Education: Scholars’ Pursuit of Academic Career in Cambodia and Kazakhstan"

This is the dataset for the thesis " Legacy-Innovation Challenges in Post-Soviet Higher Education: Scholars’ Pursuit of Academic Career in Cambodia and Kazakhstan". This qualitative research examines the scholarly career development among post-Soviet scholars in Cambodia and Kazakhstan as they tried to solve legacy-innovation challenges and dilemmas posted by the de-Sovietization of higher education systems in their countries after the demise of the Soviet Union. Specifically, this thesis explores how these scholars developed their scholarly competency to accumulate advantages for prospect careers in the Soviet system, what challenges and dilemmas they had to solve, and how they solved these challenges in order to advance their careers in their respective country. The data is collected through interviews with 10 Cambodian and 8 Kazakhstan participants who used to study in the Soviet system. The dataset consists of 16 interview verbatim transcripts and interview protocol. The interview questions cover the following: (1) their academic experience in the Soviet model, (2) major changes in the higher education system and their universities, (3) the challenges they have experienced, (4) and their success stories in advancing their academic career amid the transformation.

本数据集是为论文《苏联解体后高等教育中的遗产与创新挑战：柬埔寨和哈萨克斯坦学者的学术生涯追求》所准备。该定性研究探讨了柬埔寨和哈萨克斯坦的苏联后学者在尝试解决苏联高等教育体系解体后所面临的遗产与创新挑战与困境的过程中，其学术生涯的发展情况。具体而言，本论文探究了这些学者如何培养其学术能力以积累在苏联体系中的职业发展优势，他们必须解决的挑战和困境，以及他们如何解决这些挑战以推进各自国家的学术生涯。数据通过采访10名柬埔寨学者和8名哈萨克斯坦参与者收集而成，这些参与者曾就读于苏联体系。数据集包括16份访谈逐字记录和访谈大纲。访谈问题涵盖以下内容：(1)他们在苏联模式下的学术经历；(2)高等教育体系及其大学的主要变化；(3)他们所经历的挑战；(4)以及他们在转型期间提升学术生涯的成功故事。