Chinese universities are getting closer
There was a very saturated and effective visit of the rector of Almaty Management University (AlmaU, earlier IAB) to China. Assylbek Kozhakhmetov visited the number of Chinese universities in Hong-Kong, Shanghai and Hangzhou.
On the October 16th Assylbek Kozhakhmetov had the meeting with AlmaU exchange students in Hong-Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The rector of AlmaU showed his interest to educational programmes, in particular, for faculty members, in the fields of “Project management”, “Management in the energy sector” and etc. One of the aims of the visit was to invite experts in the sphere of “Knowledge management” for evaluation of the project being implemented at AlmaU in that field. In addition, A. Kozhakhmetov expressed his wish to develop further co-operation between the centers on entrepreneurship and innovation development in AlmaU and PolyU. Also during the meeting, they discussed matters on increasing the number of students in the framework of the academic exchange and academic mobility.
In Shanghai, where AlmaU President arrived on the October 17th, he visited Consulate General of Kazakhstan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Antai College of Economics & Management.
Discussion on the partnership between Almaty Management University and Chinese universities became another topic of the meeting between the Head of AlmaU and Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Shanghai Zhoshykhan Kyraubayev.
During the visit to Shanghai Jiao Tong University there were negotiations on the student exchange programmes between Almaty Management University and Antai College of Economics & Management. As the result, the agreement on annual students exchange between universities has been reached. Besides, they talked about the creation of joint MBA, EMBA programmes for Chinese companies, planning to open business in Kazakhstan.
During the visit to Zhejiang University parties discussed the subject on development of joint center of Entrepreneurship, and also creation of the summer school for students, organization of guest lectures with participation of local entrepreneurs and visiting companies.
From 19th to 22nd of October Assylbek Kozhakhmetov participated in the “World Entrepreneurship Forum” in Hangzhou, which was organized by Zhejiang University.
