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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On January 29, 2020, Karaganda industrial university hosted the webinar “Introduction to QS Rankings”, organized by the head of the quality management System Department Olga klimentyevna Pak.

As you know, the rating 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 using the method of the British consulting company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) – which is one of the most influential global rankings of the best universities of world importance.

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

This rating evaluates universities in the following key positions: activity and quality of research activities, employers ‘ opinions and career potential, teaching and internationalization. These indicators cover the key strategic missions of universities of global importance, for which they are responsible to the participants of the process: the academic community, employers, students and their parents. Every year, the study evaluates more than 2.5 thousand higher education institutions around the world. According to its results, a ranking of the 500 best universities in the world is compiled, as well as university rankings for individual disciplines.

The level of university achievement is assessed based on a combination of statistical analysis 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 for evaluating the performance of universities.

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

Zoya Zaitseva focused her attention on how to increase the University’s awareness, as well as on what is strictly forbidden to do in order not to lose her position in the QS-rating.

At the end of 2019, our University also submitted an application to participate in the QS-rating.

As Olga Klimentyevna noted: “Karaganda 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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On January 20, 2020, in order to achieve the most favorable conditions for developing educational programs for two-degree education, the university hosted an online conference with representatives of the US University of Dubai branch and representatives of the University of Jordan, where they discussed issues of expanding cooperation.

Double-degree education is the possibility of parallel training in two (or more) universities under a joint educational program with the subsequent receipt of diplomas of the relevant educational institutions.

Double-degree education is an important area of ​​practical integration of Kazakhstani higher education in the international educational space. Work in this direction, being the main strategic direction of the development of the university in order to increase the competitiveness of the university in the educational, research, international educational space of the university, meets the basic principles and requirements of the Bologna process.

It is worth noting that for university graduates who have successfully completed a double-degree education program, the possibility of employment in Kazakhstan and foreign companies will double.

Representatives of KSIU asked questions and received constructive, comprehensive answers. At the moment, KSIU teachers have begun preparations for the development of double-degree educational programs and the arrival of US representatives.

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At the initiative of President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev,  2020 is declared the Year of the Volunteer in Kazakhstan.

In his speech at the closing of the Youth Year, the Head of State said, noted that in our time it is a mistake to perceive volunteering as just one-time community work day and environmental events-challenges. After all, it is generally accepted that volunteering is a movement that originated in the West, and, they say, has nothing to do with us. But we all know that the very essence of volunteering – to do something from good intentions – is in line with our national traditions and values. Volunteering is not just free work, but an indicator of citizens’ responsibility and readiness to change the world for the better.

Since 2019, our government has specifically launched the “Social Student Voucher” project, which is aimed at supporting volunteer initiatives, to support and develop the volunteer movement in Kazakhstan. Under this project, students who work 20 hours as volunteers receive a reward of 20 thousand tenge, and students who work 50 hours receive 50 thousand tenge.

For the convenience of volunteers, the country launched the online platform QazVolunteer.kz, developed by the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan in conjunction with the ALE “National Volunteer Network”. The work of the qazvolunteer.kz online platform allows you to create channels of interaction between volunteer participants, coordinate the activities of volunteers and volunteer organizations in Kazakhstan, and provide information support for volunteer projects / programs / actions.

The functionality of the qazvolunteer.kz online platform allows volunteers to implement new initiatives, post information about their activities in the public domain, and organizers of projects, actions and events to find volunteers and volunteer organizations. It also forms a rating of volunteers on the platform based on the results of the work.

Visitors to the qazvolunteer.kz online platform can familiarize themselves with materials on international experience of volunteering, positive practice of volunteering in the country, conducted and planned events.

In the Karaganda State Industrial University, over 40 volunteer students take part in the project.

In January 2020, 4 students – volunteers of our university, having successfully passed the project conditions, received 20 thousand tenge. From November to December 2019, they worked under the Social Student Loan program as part of the Republican charity project Zhenis, whose work is aimed at creating and developing an understanding of the values ​​of the relationship between children and the older generation; facilitating the involvement of the target group in the educational process; introduction of new social technologies, psychological support for the elderly; stimulating them to an active, interesting and long life by organizing joint leisure for the elderly and children in the city of Temirtau.

In the city of Temirtau, the Shanyrak volunteer organization is functioning at the Temirtau Youth Club, in which more than 200 active students are involved in the volunteer movement. KSIU volunteers help in orphanages, visit veterans of the Great Patriotic War and home front workers left without relatives, take part in charity work, help the police in finding missing people, participate in socially significant projects of our city, and also conduct a huge number of events a year.

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