On July 21, 2023, the National Office of the Erasmus+ Program in Kazakhstan organized an Information Day, which was held on the zoom platform. The purpose of the event is not only to familiarize participants with the requirements and innovations of the Erasmus+ program, but also to present existing projects in order to disseminate the experience of submitting applications.
Members of the project group “European practice of sustainable development management towards green transformation” (101082914 - EPOS - ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH) took an active part in the event. Project manager, director of the Center for Multilingualism of the Karaganda University of Kazpotrebsoyuz, PhD, senior lecturer of the Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship Asanova M.A. not only gave practical recommendations for participating in projects within the Jean Monnet program, which were gratefully received by representatives of other universities, but also gave a presentation of her current project.
Karaganda University of Kazpotrebsoyuz is positioned in the region as a university open to innovation and cooperation, in which the professional and personal growth of future specialists is given great importance. Therefore, the Festival of transformational psychological games "Guide to Yourself" organized by the VIP Vocational Training Center was held within the walls of our university, which acted as the general partner of this event.
On June 10-11, 2023, representatives of the psychological community of Kazakhstan, coaches from business structures, practicing psychologists, held master classes on mastering modern psychological practices of conducting transformational games, introduced about forty transformational games with participants, including teachers and students of educational programs "Psychology and Management in Education" and "Social Work" to the relevant tools of self-knowledge and self-development, conducted by fifteen igropractors and masters, specialists of various supporting professions from Almaty, Astana, Karaganda, Moscow.
Organizational issues of the Festival, as noted by the organizers and participants, were promptly and at a high level resolved by the staff of the Chair of Psychology, Pedagogy and Social Work and volunteer students – future psychologists and social workers. The experience that our students have received is unique both in terms of content and format of the event.
We express special gratitude for the cooperation and the opportunity to become participants and co-organizers of Maria Zhirkova - art coach, author and presenter of transformational games; Yulia Prokopyeva - business coach, financial consultant.
On May 30, 2023, the Karaganda University of Kazpotrebsoyuz took part in the republican forum "Development of the psychological service of the University of the Republic of Kazakhstan", which was held in Almaty. The forum was held on the basis of the Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abai, was organized by the sector "Psychological Service". The forum was attended by more than 80 psychologists, faculty and vice-rectors from 58 universities from all over the republic. On behalf of our university, the lecturer of the Department of Psychology, Pedagogy and Social Work Isaev Aituar Aitymovich took part in this forum. In the first part of the event, an educational training was held by associate professor, Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences, PhD - Manshuk Askarovna on the topic "Prospects for the development and integration of psychological services". Also at this forum, a psychological notebook "Get inspired" was presented, compiled by psychologists of KazNPU. Abaya is specially for students. The participants were awarded certificates following the results of the forum.
On June 6, 2023, Karaganda University of Kazpotrebsoyuz participated in a online meeting with the Chairman of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, representatives of RSE "KazStandard", "National Center for Accreditation", Departments of the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic Kazakhstan, JSC "National Center for Expertise and Certification" with universities providing training in the field of standardization, certification and metrology. Together with the Department of Commodity Science and Certification, the experience and problems of implementing educational programs, the possibility of further cooperation and increasing the rating and prestige of educational programs in standardization, metrology and certification were discussed. We thank the organizers for an interesting and useful event, openness to cooperation, readiness to assist in the education of our students and graduates.
On June 1, 2023, the TimesHigherEducation (THE) rating agency published the global world rating «ImpactRankings 2023», which measures the level of influence of universities on the sustainable development of society and contribution to the achievement of the SDGs. The ranking includes more than 1,500 universities from 112 countries, including 15 Kazakhstani universities.
This year, Karaganda University of Kazpotrebsoyuz entered the top six among Kazakhstani universities participating in the rating, retaining the position of the top 1001+.
In 2023, Karaganda University of Kazpotrebsoyuz was ranked for the following goals:
- goal 3 «Good health and well-being» (the best in the world -801+);
- goal 4 «Quality Education» (World Top -801+);
- goal 5 «Gender Equality» (top 401+in the world);
- goal 8 «Decent Work and economic growth» (top 401 + in the world);
- goal 10 «Reducing inequality» (top -801 + in the world);
- goal 16 «Peace, justice and peace institutions» (world top-401+);
- goal 17 «Partnership to achieve goals» (top -1001+in the world).
This was made possible, in particular, thanks to the improvement of the activities of departments and structural divisions of Karaganda University in Kazpotrebsoyuz and the contribution of the university to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
TimesHigherEducation ratings are among the most authoritative in the world. Their advantage is a carefully verified methodology developed jointly with the readers and editors of the TimesHigherEducation magazine with the participation of ThomsonReuters.
