President of AlmaU Assylbek Kozhahmetov had a speech at «UK - Kazakhstan Universities Forum»

November 2, 2015. London hosted the first Forum of the British and Kazakh universities, with the participation of the Ministries of Education and Science of Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom, as well as the heads of 67 universities from both sides. Kazakhstan was represented by 35 national, public and private universities, including Almaty Management University. 

November 2, 2015. London hosted the first Forum of the British and Kazakh universities, with the participation of the Ministries of Education and Science of Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom, as well as the heads of 67 universities from both sides. Kazakhstan was represented by 35 national, public and private universities, including Almaty Management University.

The Forum, organized by the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan, with the support of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, British Council and UK Trade & Investment, is intended to strengthen the cooperation in the implementation of educational programmes.

Speakers from the Kazakh delegation were: Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Sarinzhipov A.B. , President of Almaty Management University (formerly IAB) Kozhahmetov A.B., rector of Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi Mutanov G.M. and the President of JSC "Center for International Programmes" Nygymetov G.S. From the British side there was a speech on the UK higher education keynote by Daniel Shah, Assistant Director of the UK Higher Education International Unit. The topic of Assylbek Kozhakhmetov’s speech at the forum was the "Development of business education in the Republic of Kazakhstan."

The exchange of experience, training of Kazakhstani specialists at leading universities in the UK, implementation of joint scientific research projects, training of young scientists in the SplitPhD programme within the international scholarship "Bolashak" - these and other issues were discussed in the forum. In total, about 100 negotiations on the cooperation of the British and Kazakh universities have been organized. As a result of the forum, the number of documents have been signed, including a memorandum on cooperation between national, public and private universities in of both countries.

Almaty Management University has signed the memorandum with the London South Bank University.

It was not the end the programme of the visit of the Kazakh delegation to Europe. The next step will be the participation in the VI Kazakh-French forum of higher education institutions, which will be held in Paris on November 4-6, 2016. The forum will discuss the results and prospects of cooperation of Kazakhstan and France universities.