While welcoming the Minister, Acting President of NU Ilesanmi Adesida noted that the hall gathered a new generation of students of the leading university of Kazakhstan, which successfully fulfills its five strategic objectives – leadership in the formation of the education system, academic and scientific leadership, which is expressed in publications in the top scientific journals of the world, the creation and development of the model of integrated academic health care system, and the promotion of innovation. In his lecture, Minister Sayasat Nurbek told the students about the achievements in Kazakhstan’s higher education system, highlighted the challenges facing it, and discussed the role of NU in this process.