Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of Kostanay State University
The Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of A. Baitursunov Kostanay State University has been created as the highest management body of the Association in the context of realization of the state program of progress of the education in the Republic of Kazakhstan, on June, 8th, 2012 at the First Forum of Alumni and Trustees of Kostanay State University. The activity of the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of Kostanay State University is led by Serik Chinygizovich Bekturganov, vice-akim of Kostanay region, under the aegis of the regional administration and on behalf of the administration of Kostanay region.
The activity of the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association aims to bring together the university, government and business organizations to improve the quality of training, the stable development of the university. The Board gives recommendations on planning the university development, defining its strategy, priorities and long-term development objectives, development strategy of mutually beneficial cooperation with employers, participating in the development of educational programs, providing a financial contribution to training, funding business projects of students, promoting employment of graduates.
The Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of KSU consists of 24 people, they are alumni and business leaders, heads of government agencies, prominent public figures and leaders of large companies in our region who voluntarily wish to contribute to the improvement of the quality of undergraduate and postgraduate students, to strengthen financial, material and technical base of the university, the establishment of joint ventures for the implementation of scientific development of students and faculty, technology transfer, etc. these are the companies and organizations such as JSC “Agromash-Holding”, JSC “Bayan Sulu”, Association “Kostanai Munay Onimdery”, TPK “Karasu”, LLP “Grain Industry”, “Stofarm” LLP, “Arai-Holding” LLP, “Agrofirma Dievskoe” LLP, “Karken”, a branch of Legal Entities Association “National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan” “Atameken Union” in Kostanai region, LLP “Milkh” and others. |
The chairmen of boards of trustees of all faculties, chairman of the club's mass media editors of Kostanai region are also part of the Association Board. This organizational structure of the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of KSU has established itself positively, along with the implementation of its general functions of the Board of the Association it also coordinates the activities of boards of trustees of the faculties. Besides members of the boards of trustees of the faculties are leading specialists in those fields which provide training at faculties. This allows the boards of trustees of faculties to assist and support in dealing with issues and the development of their faculties more professionally.
The Board of Alumni and Trustees Association hold a meeting once or twice a year. During the session members decided to increase the participation of potential employers of our region in the educational process to assist the university in training highly qualified specialists. To solve the task it was decided to organize field classes for university students, retraining and professional development for the teaching staff in leading enterprises with advanced technology and manufacturing competitive products. A number of organizations that have joined the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of KSU are the basis for students’ internship; many of them have opened branches of departments equipped with special rooms for training in industry. Members of the Association and leading experts with great practical experience in the workplace are invited to give lectures and conduct classes.
Cooperation between Kostanai State University and the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association is based on the principles of mutually beneficial partnership. The university offers the members of the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of KSU and potential employers professional development in various programs, involvement of the scientific potential of the university for scientific and practical problems hindering the development of enterprises, use of the material-technical base of the university, access to library and electronic resources of the university, technology development, business projects, marketing and psychoanalytic research, etc.
Thus, KSU created a mechanism for public participation in the management and production quality of the education and training of competitive specialists. New forms of organization of joint partnerships enable employers to attract and training to ensure not only the practical component of the educational process in the real world of modern manufacturing and material resources, but also improve the quality of education in general.
The Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of KSU pays special attention to improvement of quality of a professional training in this connection actual considers following problems:
- Establishment of a continuous communication with graduates;
- Creation of favorable conditions to graduates in their innovative activity, assistance in promotion of its results;
- Assistance in promotion of scientific and technical development of university and the enterprises through graduates;
- Attraction of graduates to progress innovative technologies at university (a management and financing of projects, joint participation in scientific projects, realization of scientific and technical development, etc.)
- Assistance to progress of the international communications of university and the enterprises with attraction of leading foreign scientists.
The Board of Alumni and Trustees Association also provides strengthening materially - technical base of university, rendering of sponsor's support to requiring students from among children of orphans, children of parents remaining without care and children with the limited possibilities by attraction of gratuitous donations of money resources, devices, the equipment, etc. In this connection members of the Board have taken part in updating public Fund of progress KSU by A.Baitursynov. Creation of public fund offers the promise also a necessary condition of the further progress of university.
Members of the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association Chairman of the Board – Bekturganov Serik Chingizovich, vice-akim of the administration of Kostanay region
1. Abenov Murat Telgarovich – Director of branch « National economic chamber of Kazakhstan », "Union Atameken" in Kostanay region;
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Some results of work of the Board of Alumni and Trustees Association of KSU |
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In structure of Board of Association of graduates and trustees KSU works 4 committees |
1. The committee on educational affairs and interoperability with actual sector of economy (Sidorenko A.N., Klimenko I.I., Danilenko O.V.) – considers questions of the organization of educational process, a content of educational programs, qualifications and practical preparation of students and an assessment of quality of their preparation.
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