On January 29, 2020, the Introduction to QS Rankings webinar, organized by the head of the Quality Management System department Olga Klimentyevna Pak, was held at the Karaganda State Industrial University.

As you know, the ranking of the best higher education institutions depends directly on the main indicators and achievements of the university in the field of science, education and competitiveness, which is calculated according to the methodology of the British consulting company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) – which is one of the most influential global ratings of the best universities of world significance.

QS World University Rankings was developed in 2004 by Quacquarelli Symonds in conjunction with the British edition of Times Higher Education (THE).

This rating evaluates universities in the following key areas: activity and quality of research activities, employers’ opinions and career potential, teaching and internationalization. These indicators cover the key strategic missions of universities of world significance for which they are responsible to the participants in the process: the academic community, employers, students and their parents. Annually, the study evaluates over 2.5 thousand higher education institutions around the world. Based on its results, a ranking of the 500 best universities in the world is compiled, as well as university ratings in individual disciplines.

The level of university achievement is assessed on the basis of a combination of statistical analysis of the activities of educational institutions, audited data (including information on the citation index from the Scopus database, the world’s largest bibliometric database of scientific publications), as well as data from a global expert survey of representatives of the international academic community and employers, who express their opinions about universities. The following are quantitative and qualitative indicators by which universities are evaluated.

During the webinar, the regional director of QS World University Rankings for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Zoya Zaitseva, told the participants about the methodology for selecting universities in the QS rating and the position of Kazakhstan universities in it.

Zoya Zaitseva focused on how to increase the recognition of the university, as well as what is strictly forbidden to do so as not to lose her position in the QS rating.

At the end of 2019, our university also applied for participation in the QS rating.

As Olga Klimentyevna noted: “Karaganda State Industrial University has a lot of serious work to do to improve its scientometric indicators, internationalization, and recognition among the international academic community. But this process is actively moving forward. ”

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Karaganda state industrial university is actively involved in placing evacuated people from the Almaty – Yekaterinburg highway in dormitories.

During the night of January 27-28, 2020, with zero visibility and a squall wind, 187 people were rescued from the snowdrift, 40 of them children, by the forces of the Department of emergency situations and the military unit 52859 of the national guard “Ortalyk” on the section of the route 1047-1073 km of the highway near the city of Temirtau. In total, there were more than 20 trucks, 40 cars and 1 bus in the drifts.

People were placed in a dormitory of the Karaganda state industrial university in Temirtau, where they were able to warm up, drink hot tea, spend the night and wait out a severe snowstorm. No one needed medical help.

It should be noted that our university is not the first time to come to the aid of people who found themselves in an emergency situation due to a natural disaster.

Earlier, university volunteers took part in the Republican campaign “Bizbirgemiz”, during which they cleared snow-covered areas of bus stops, educational buildings and dormitories. In addition, volunteers are actively carrying out actions to help students of the center for the adaptation of minors. House of Mercy. The KSIU volunteers set an example for everyone, not in words, but in deeds. It is safe to say that THE year of the KSIU volunteer was opened with good deeds!

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On January 23, the Karaganda region was captured by the strongest snowstorm. All road services, emergency units and air traffic control units worked all day. A large number of cars and buses were rescued from snow captivity. On the afternoon of January 23, a passenger bus stuck in the snow drift near Temirtau, following the Bishkek-Tyumen route with 50 passengers.

Bus passengers were accommodated in the hostel of the Karaganda State Industrial University. All were provided with sleeping places with accessories, for a day and a half the residents of Kyrgyzstan were in a hostel. The city akimat provided them with grocery sets, drinking water.

In moments of sudden disaster and unforeseen situations, the main thing is to lend a helping hand and provide assistance. KSIU more than once helped people caught in the snowstorms.

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On January 25, students of Karaganda state industrial university went out to clean snow. This promotion was held as part of the announced challenge “Biz birgemiz!”

The capital’s youth launched a snow removal challenge on social networks. The citizens propose to take the initiative in their own hands and clean up of the yard from snow, to shoot it on video and put online with the hashtag # Bizbirgemiz.

The idea of the challenge arose from volunteers after heavy snowfall, the consequences of which are eliminated by utilities around the clock. Well-known TV presenter, humorist Tursynbek Kabatov, journalist, TV presenter Askhat Sadyrbay and participants of the theater “Nazar Audar”joined the initiative.

KSIU students cleared the bus stop area of snow, laid paths for pedestrians, and removed the territory of dormitories and academic buildings from snow.

As the students themselves noted, they opened the year of the volunteer with their participation in the campaign. Recall that on behalf of the President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Jomart Tokayev, 2020 was declared the year of the volunteer.

KSIU volunteers have repeatedly participated in social events and events. During the year, they held charity events to support low-income and large families. volunteers go to the house of Mercy and the center for the adaptation of minors with concerts.

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On January 24, 2020, the Honesty Store was opened in Karaganda industrial university. The store will constantly sell sweet drinks, coffee, tea, chocolate, cookies, biscuits, etc.

The patron of the project “shop of honesty” was an individual entrepreneur Svetlana Alekseevna Glukhikh.

“From today, the honesty store will operate on a self-service system, that is, without a seller. The student can take the goods and leave the money in a special box “Checkout”, replacing the usual cash registers for all of us, ”  she explained.

As noted by the Dean of the school of integrity Zhania Kudaibergenovna Kapasheva: “the Implementation of this project is aimed at the formation and education of high moral qualities among students, internal integrity, honesty and self-development. These factors directly affect the development of immunity to corruption.”

According to Valeria Stankevich, a student of the group VT&PO-18,      “opening an honesty store makes it possible to train young people to decency and honesty.”

“To justify the trust of an unfamiliar person, in this case the store owner, should become the norm for the behavior of modern youth. Creating these stores of honesty, we give a boost that allows all of us to confirm their honesty and integrity,” said candidate of technical sciences, Professor Artykbaev Otepbergen Artykbaevich.

University students, faculty and representatives of the university student club “Sanaly Urpak” took an active part in the process of opening the store.

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