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Eurasian Higher Education Leaders' Forums (EHELF): Preface

Sagintayeva, A.; Kurakbayev, Kairat (2015)

These conference proceedings represent voices of academia, students, employers and labour market on perspectives and issues of graduates’ employability. As the academic world tries to grasp its ways of drawing closer ties ...
Main directions in developing corporate partnerships: the case of Rudny Industrial Institute, Kazakhstan

Naizabekov, Abdrakhman (2015)

The Strategy “Kazakhstan-2050” notes the need to create a network of public-private partnership for the development of higher education system. In the State Programme of Education Development for 2011-2020 an important ...
Nurturing net generation graduates with global skills

Ramakrishna, Seeram (2015)

The total enrolments in more than 20,000 universities and tertiary education providers around the world are in the range of 200 million students. One in five students are enrolled in technology related disciplines. Various ...
Perseptions of employability, skills and individual aspiration in a diversifying economy

Ruby, Alan (2015)

Employability is a relatively new concept. The notion that post school educational institutions should play some role in preparing young people for employment really only came into focus as participation increased and the ...
Practice-oriented learning - a platform for the formation of global skills

Nurmanbetova, Jamilya (2015)

Glocal people are needed in all fields of life-sustaining activity as business, industry, education, health, environment, technologies. To develop glocal people is the key aim the world higher education system is intending ...
Principles learning points

Bennett, Sue (2015)

During the Forum, we heard from many practitioners and experts from government, employers and universities across the world. Four themes emerged repeatedly, although they were often expressed from different viewpoints, and ...
Skills, employability and university graduates?

Goertz, Rainer (2015)

Let me start with a brief story: “In the early morning a school inspector drives his car to a village in order to visit a village school. Half the way and amid open fields the motor of his car fails. For having no technical ...
Soviet legasy in higher education: some observations from Russia

Froumin, Isak (2015)

Hardly more than five years ago there was no Nazarbayev University in Astana, but now Eurasian Higher Education Leaders’ Forum is being held there. That shows that some magnitude has changed recently. At the same time I ...
Technical skills: through learning and practice?

Madeyev, Sabyrzhan (2015)

Implementation of the State Programme of Industrial and Innovative Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan is impossible without a developed system of professional education, which targets to train specialists in order ...
The future of graduates in the global labour market

Lauder, Hugh (2015)

Dear Minister, colleagues and distinguished guests! Thank you very much for inviting me to give this keynote this morning in these challenging circumstances that we face. Let me also say that it is rare that I have had a ...
The paradox of emerging universities

Jones, Simon (2015)

Knowledge industries are a significant element of 21st Century economies. Over the last 25 years, Universities, the original knowledge industry, have become increasingly important engines of growth and indeed economic ...
Understanding the role of fundamental values in serving a larger purpose

Sagintayeva, A. (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2015-06)

At the end of the first day of the Forum, I hope we may come to an agreement that employability is an increasingly relevant performance indicator for universities. Traditionally the expectation has been that universities ...