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The official online opening of the “Leader of the New Formation” program, implemented by the NU Graduate School of Public Policy (hereinafter – NU GSPP), the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore took place on September 7, 2020. The opening ceremony was attended by Timur Suleimenov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Anar Zhailganova, Chairperson of the Agency for Civil Service Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Shigeo Katsu, President of NU, Yerlan Abil, Rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

We are pleased to announce that by the decision of the Managing Council of NU, Yuriy Pya has been appointed as a Chairman of the Board of the University Medical Center with effect from September 1, 2020. Let us also inform you that Kanybek Ashirov will assume the role of an Executive Director.

The university experience can be a very formative stage in many people’s lives. Student involvement in university life will often have profoundly lasting effects, and many institutions try to provide various opportunities for individuals to grow during their student years.

Today we are talking with Zhandos Tauanov, Ph. D.

The 2019 pandemic has made a difference in educational environments around the world – universities everywhere are introducing online courses and distance learning. In the spring semester, NU switched to distance learning using Moodle’s BigBlueButton, Zoom, Qualtrics, PowerPoint, electronic journals, e-books, textbooks, and other resources of the Innovation Training Center.

NU handed out 1875 personal protective equipment (PPE) kits to the medical workers of Nur-Sultan and Karaganda region. Sponsorship was provided by NU’s “Social Development Fund” subsidiary.

Scientists from the National Laboratory Astana (NLA) are conducting large-scale studies of the Kazakhstani population’s entire genome using various sequencing technologies and bioinformatics analysis based on artificial intelligence (AI). “The project will create a genome reference database of Kazakhstanis by sequencing the whole genomes of 500 individuals.

Our guest today is Sergey Yessenov, General Director of University Service Management Private Entity. He told us about the work of USM PE and its contribution to the development of the University, as well as shared information about plans and upcoming projects.

New students, new teachers, new staff, new approaches – educational institutions worldwide are being challenged by the upcoming Fall Semester. One can hardly expect to turn things back as they used to be, therefore we must find a “new normal”.

NU graduates advanced to the semifinals of the European Universities Debating Championship (EUDС). For the first time in the history of Kazakhstan, Alisher Juzgenbayev and Mukhtar Tashkenbayev, members of the team ‘NU A’ qualified in the the EUDC’s semi-finals in the ‘Open’ category and quarter-finals in the ‘English as a second language’ categoryDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament, which was supposed to be held in the city of Nur-Sultan, was held online.