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Since 2011, NU annually gathers its strategic partners to reflect on the latest cooperation developments, share perspectives and experiences on the trends in higher education, and discuss implications for further partnership. Affected by the COVID-19, this year Partners’ Meeting is being held online on November 12-13 and covers the following topic: “Future of Higher Education and Partnership with NU”.

Daily new cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in Kazakhstan. During the autumn-winter period, the number of respiratory infections typically rises, however this year the coronavirus infection will be a compounding factor.

Our guest today is Adlet Eleusov, a master’s student at the Graduate School of Education. Adlet is the co-founder of Teachers Lab, a marketplace for teachers.

[su_slider source=”media: 46834,46835,46836,46837,46838,46839″ link=”image” width=”800″ height=”450″ title=”no”]For the first time, the NU Career and Advising Center held an online forum on the topic “Interaction between employers and universities”. The event brought together representatives of university career centers, employers, as well as specialists in the field of career development and planning.

Thirty 6th grade pupils from Kazakhstani schools took part in a study on shadow education that was conducted by NU professor Anas Hajar. Over the course of one year, students shared their experiences and opinions about private tutoring in Kazakhstan.

Professor Elliott Bowen’s book “In Search of Sexual Health” has been published by John Hopkins University. How did beliefs about syphilis shape the kinds of treatment people with this disease received? The story of how a town in the Ozark hinterlands played a key role in determining standards of medical care around syphilis.

Dos Sarbassov, a Kazakh-American biologist and NU scientist, is completing the development of a drug that will make mutated cancer cells self-destruct. His drug, along with an American drug based on arsenic in low doses, has been shown to be effective against KRAS-mutant cells, which are found in 95%of pancreatic cancers, 30%of colon cancers, and 20%of lung cancers.

A team of NU scientists led by Professor-epidemiologist Byron Crape, who has been researching the causes of “sleeping sickness” in Kalachi for a long time, put forward their hypothesis about why the villagers were falling into sudden hibernation from late 2012 to October 2015. “In our study of Kalachi syndrome, we applied a scientific modeling method to find patterns.

NU students Diaz Takenov and Aruzhan Meirkhanova will undergo a one-day internship at the embassies of the Netherlands and Germany. This internship is the prize for winning 1st and 2nd place in an essay competition that was organized this past summer by the Department of Political Science and International Relations (PSIR) at NU’s School of Sciences and Humanities (SSH).

For about a month now Kazakhstanis have been using a “smart” test to estimate the probability of COVID-19 infection on their own. Starting from October the online-test was freely available at https://covistop.