Speech by the ALLVET Project Coordinator at the IAAR Forum in Turkestan

On October 4-5, 2019, the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR / IAAR) in the city of Turkestan held the "III Central Asian International Forum on Quality Assurance in Education". The Forum was attended by deputies of the Senate and Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Vice Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Vice Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tajikistan, representatives of the Ministries of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Uzbekistan, RF, heads of international European networks for ensuring the quality of higher education, foreign accreditation bodies, educational organizations from more than 20 countries of the world (Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Turkey, Latvia, Moldova, Egypt, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc.), Association of Universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan and more than 30 rectors of Kazakhstani and foreign universities, students and employers. More than 600 people took part in the III Central Asian International Forum in Turkestan. The Forum allowed to identify problems and identify ways to improve the quality of education in the countries of Central Asia and Europe; to promote qualitative institutional changes in the higher education system; increase the competitiveness of educational services; raise the level of training of specialists, the demand and employment of graduates; to intensify academic mobility and internationalization of education; to form an effective system of interaction between universities, employers, stakeholders based on the principles of balancing the interests of all participants in the educational process; expand integration into the global educational space.

Gaini Mukhanova, coordinator of the ALLVET project of the Erasmus + program, Head of the Career Center of Narxoz University JSC, took part in the Forum and spoke at the Second panel session: "Improving the quality of education and commercialization of science: trends and trends in digital transformation".

Within the framework of a speech dedicated to the issues of the demand for graduates in the labor market, as well as the experience of international practice in promoting scientific projects and involving students and teaching staff in research, Gaini Mukhanova presented information on the ALLVET project at the Forum site, the official start of which is scheduled for January 15, 2020. The result was a great interest of the leadership of universities in Kazakhstan and foreign universities, as well as in general representatives of the higher education system in the project.

On the second day, after the final plenary session, the organizers of the Forum conducted an excursion to the sacred places of the Turkestan region. The result of the productive work of the Forum are recommendations that in the future will become a vector of positive transformations in the education quality system and increase the competitiveness of educational services, as well as expanding opportunities for promoting the results of the project, both in Kazakhstan and beyond.

(Source: http://www.iaar.kz/ru/65-0-novosti/news-all/1649-iii-tsentralno-aziatskij-mezhdunarodnyj-forum-po-obespecheniyu-kachestva-obrazovaniya).

In February 2019, the career center of Narxoz University JSC submitted 3 project applications for participation in the Erasmus + program. To our general joy, the management of Narxoz received an official letter No. 66-22 dated August 7, 2019 from the Director of the National Office of the Erasmus + Program in Kazakhstan, Ms. Tasbulatova Sh.U. that following the results of the Fifth Competition for the component "Capacity building in higher education" (PEP) of the Erasmus + program by the decision of the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture of the European Commission, ten new projects with the participation of Kazakhstani universities were selected for funding, in one of which the partner is Narxoz University. This is the project 609952-EPP-1-2019-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP ALLVET "Creation of an alliance of HE and VET in accordance with the implementation of the principles of the Bologna process through increasing the potential of VET teachers." This project is of great importance for improving not only the sphere of higher education, but also for the development of TVE organizations, therefore, the colleges of the Republic of Kazakhstan will become the main platform for the implementation of the project results.

The project application was prepared by the team of the Career Center of Narxoz University, and worthy partner universities were invited to the consortium: SDU and MUIT.

The entire staff of the Narxoz Career Center is aware, along with the high honor rendered by the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual Means and Culture of the European Commission, but also the full degree of responsibility for the worthy implementation of the project, the organization of the well-coordinated work of the entire Kazakhstan consortium.