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16.06.2021 Abai university: achievements, priorities and development prospects
On June 15, 2021, Chairman of the Board - Rector of Abai KazNPU Darkhan Bilyalov conducted online briefing on the platform of Regional Communication Service of Almaty. The main achievements of the leading pedagogical university of the country, results and plans for its further development were presented to the media.
In his report the Rector gave a detailed analysis of educational, scientific and innovative, financial and economic, social and educational activities of the university, highlighted the successes and identified strategic objectives and areas of development of the university for the new academic year and for the future.
«In the last 3 years, one of the important indicators of the strategic development of the University has been achieved , it is a significant increase in the number of students at all levels of education. Compared to 2018, the number of students has almost doubled. From 2018 to 2020, 859 Altyn Belgi holders, 749 school leavers with honours diploma and 142 college graduates with honours diploma enrolled in the first year.
In order to develop the professional competence of teachers, continuous pedagogical practice with elements of dual training has been introduced since the second year of study. The demand for graduates in the labour market and employers` satisfaction with the quality of training of young specialists is also high. In order to ensure interrelation with employers there have been developed mobile application «Mansap» (more than 4000 users), online platform «BAGDAR» (1726 vacancies, 973 organizations), which facilitates the placement of the university graduates.
The rector also noted the positions in the rankings. In the QS World University Ranking Abai KazNPU is among the top 5 best universities in the world. According to the results of QS World University Ranking-2022 University improved its position and took 551-560th place, going up 50 positions compared to a year earlier, it is the 5th place among universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Taking part for the first time in the QS World University by Subject Ranking-2021, the University ranked 201-250 in two subjects (Education, English Language and Literature). «The efficiency and quality of educational services provided is confirmed by the leading position among the pedagogical universities of the country in the national rankings», he said.
During the report, the achievements and awards of the teaching staff and students were announced. Teachers improve their qualification on regular courses in various disciplines, winter and summer schools, internships and English language courses organised by the university. The work on implementation of educational and scientific-innovative projects in the sphere of sectorial education and pedagogical sciences which coordinate, support and develop scientific, scientific-methodological and creative potential of educational organizations of the republic was marked.
Abai KazNPU is recognised as «The leader on publication activity in Web of Science Core Collection for the last 5 years among pedagogical universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan». The university actively continues to expand external contacts. It participates in 11 international programs of ERAZMUS+ ICM and 2 programs of DAAD; 4 programs of MEVLANA. Abai University was the first among the universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan to receive a certificate on implementation of anti-corruption management system of international standard ISO 3700:2016.
In the educational activities of Abai KazNPU the program «Rukhani zhangyru» is being implemented, continuous work on improvement of student self-government, development of mass sports and creative potential of students, on their social support is being carried out. There were created the student rector`s office, co-working centre «SmartStudents», club «Sanaly urpak», music studio «ZhassStag», the Centre of young poets named after O. Dosbosynov, 40 student clubs, sport sections.
In social work, priority is given to supporting orphans and children deprived of parental care, as well as socially vulnerable categories of the population. The total amount of tuition fee discounts in the academic year 2020/2021 was 270.5 million tenge. One of the large-scale events is the social project «Izgilik Elshisi».
Speaking about the priorities for further development and expected results, the rector named clear goals. «We see Abai University as an involved university aimed at solving specific problems of education in the city and the country as a whole (modernisation of teacher education, improving the quality of teacher training and their status, implementation and translation of innovative educational practices, providing the education system with qualified teaching staff). For this purpose, our university actively cooperates with intellectual schools and other creative subordinate organisations», Darkhan Bilyalov said.
We noted the work aimed at the development of the University of the world level: human resource policy, flexible categorization of teaching staff, effective and transparent system of evaluation of the work of teaching staff, attracting holders of «Altyn belgi», certificates and diplomas with honours to the University, the concept of Abay «Tolyk adam» as a model of morality for students and graduates, and expansion of scientific research. As stated by the rector, all conditions will be created for the implementation of these tasks. Regarding the priorities of academic programs, it is necessary to expand graduate and doctoral programs, to strengthen the management of education, development of programs PGCE, EdD and others.
During the briefing, media representatives asked questions on digitalisation, vaccination of teaching staff and students, infrastructure development, new changes in the work of the university, and international cooperation, to which precise answers were given.
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