Soft rock
Mongolia has a bold plan, a surplus, and good demographics. The economy still runs on copper, however, and the copper boom is part of why.
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ManyPress Editorial Team
ManyPress Editorial
Mongolia has a bold plan, a surplus, and good demographics. The economy still runs on copper, however, and the copper boom is part of why.
Key points
- In May 2025, Mongolia’s State Training Fund announced a change to the country’s overseas-study loans.
- Until then, the most promising Mongolian school-leavers could spend four years at a foreign university on the public purse.
- From the 2025-26 academic year, two of those years would have to be served at a Mongolian institution first .
- The reason, stated with unusual candour by officials, was that too many state-funded scholars never came home.
- The rule is a verdict, and not a flattering one, on the universities Mongolia has and on the country it has yet to become.
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This article was independently rewritten by ManyPress editorial AI from reporting originally published by Emerging Europe.
