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New blog post at NU Yvision platform. If you want to know whether maths professors can be both romantic and mad about cryptography, meet Francesco Sica!

Lin, who is the Bank’s first Chief Economist from a developing country and whose term ends on June 1 of this year, is leaving his mark on the institution by advancing a framework for rethinking development and policy. Taking account of growth lessons from past decades, New Structural Economics focuses on how an economy’s structure is endogenous to its factor endowment and highlights the importance of continuous technological innovation, industrial upgrading and diversification based on comparative advantage.

Biology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Biotechnologies, and Microbiology labs, Preparatory and Sanitizing rooms as well as Optics, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Synthesis labs were in the visiting list. Today both Foundation and Undergraduate students and young researchers use the lab facilities.

The author attempted to define important lessons of the world financial crisis that might be considered in terms of studying the situation in the national economies of world leading countries and in Kazakhstan. Special attention in the book is paid to the problems of modernization and diversification of the economy of Kazakhstan, regarding its peculiarities and the regularities of a changing world.

It is expected that students of NU will be able to get work experience in “Agromashholding” group of companies, to improve skills and gain new knowledge. Upon graduation, graduates with appropriate skills and education can also apply for senior positions in the enterprises of the group.

In addition to developing training programs for employees of the“National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna” and national companies that are situated under the administration of the Fund, we intend to coop

“It was a great opportunity to work with the engineering undergraduates at NU. They proved to be enthusiastic and very creative – a thoroughly stimulating experience”, said David Faraday.

As was the case last year, the School of Engineering turned out to be the most popular choice with 45% of new students electing to study in this School, followed by the School of Science and Technology, 26%, School of Medicine, 15%, and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 14%. The largest number of undergraduate students come from Astana – 138 people (27%), followed by Almaty – 60 (12%), Karaganda – 54 (10%), East Kazakhstan oblast – 38 (7%) and South Kazakhstan oblast – 35 (7%).

The total area of the facilities to be constructed, which includes a boiler-house and engineering communications, comprises more than 67,000 square meters. On December 22, 2011, the autonomous organization of education “NU” and JSC “Sembol Uluslararasy Yatyrym Tarym Peizaj Insaat Sanaii ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi” signed a contract for development of design estimate documentation and construction of the first start-up facilities.