Kazachstan planuje przyciągnąć 150 tys. zagranicznych studentów do 2029 — co stoi za tym wysiłkiem?
Kazachstan chce zaspokoić rosnące zapotrzebowanie na szkolnictwo wyższe poprzez rozszerzenie współpracy z zagranicznymi uniwersytetami i utworzenie nowych centrów badawczych. Jak wspiera się studentów w rozwoju przedsiębiorczości i zaawansowanych technologii przy wprowadzaniu nowych programów AI?
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00:10With over 1 billion people under the age of 25 across Central Asia and Eurasia, Kazakhstan is positioning itself as the region's higher education hub, modernizing universities, building global ties and drawing in international students.
00:22Welcome to East-West Connect. We're highlighting business and economic developments in Kazakhstan and the wider Central Asia region, connecting with Europe and beyond.
00:34Kazakhstan has been part of the European higher education area for 15 years. After joining the Bologna process in 2010, it began aligning its university standards with Europe, improving mobility, degree recognition and quality.
00:46Now, with demand for higher education rising across Central Asia, Kazakhstan is accelerating transnational education by inviting global universities to open campuses on its soil.
00:58In the past three years alone, nearly 40 transnational education partnerships have been launched, including five university branch campuses.
01:05Western universities are already in active collaboration with Kazakhstani institutions, some with campuses open or underway.
01:12Leading the way are British universities, followed by major U.S. institutions.
01:16Kazakhstan plans to open 34 more foreign university branches by 2029, aiming to increase its international student body nearly five-fold, from 31,500 today to 150,000.
01:30Of the current foreign students, nearly 40% come from India, mostly in recognized medical programs.
01:36For the first time, Asian students outnumber those from the post-Soviet space.
01:41And in a striking reversal, more Russians are now studying in Kazakhstan than the other way around.
01:46To understand what's driving the shift, we spoke to the person leading the country's education transformation, Minister of Science and Higher Education, Sayasat Nurbek.
01:55So we had very clear vision, one, bringing good, big partnerships, and then try to attract as many foreign students as possible.
02:07Second, research is becoming huge on our agenda.
02:11A lot of these great universities now have access to critical minerals, for example.
02:16And so we are launching several joint research centers in critical minerals enrichment, and mining, and metallurgy.
02:23How are international and domestic students supported in their entrepreneurship and deep tech development?
02:29Every single university student in Kazakhstan will have to go for AI courses, get certificates.
02:36Out of 650,000 students, over 4,000 students already have certificates.
02:42Then we're launching a $100 million seed fund just to fund AI startups of these college students and faculty members.
02:49And then we're going to go through AI entrepreneurship module.
02:53And so every single student will have a possibility to become what we now call Unocorns, a one-person, billion-dollar company, a founder,
03:03with full support at every level, incubation, acceleration, and basic learning.
03:09What results are you seeing in aligning graduates with the global labor market?
03:14We'll have to wait for the first batch of graduates, and we're so far so good.
03:20We have Nazarbayev University, we have De Montfort University, and their graduates are really good quality.
03:26I mean, I would say they comply with any international demand.
03:30About 70% of these students, they go and hire by international companies, global companies, big four companies.
03:37Some of them pursue their academic careers in top universities, best Ivy League, best Russell Group,
03:44best research-intensive universities in the world for their master's programs, PhD programs.
03:49They stand up to any international standard given by large companies, Fortune 500 companies.
03:56Well, Mr. Minister, it was such a pleasure having you on our program today.
04:00Thank you for carving out the time out of your busy schedule for us.
04:03Thank you. Thank you for having me.
04:07Private companies are also stepping up with global partnerships.
04:11One local company is opening the doors to a new British university.
04:17A British liberal arts university will open in Astana next September, bringing Western education closer to home.
04:23Offering degrees in business, AI, and education, it plans to grow from 100 to 400 students by 2029.
04:29My plan is for it to set the new standards, especially in a commercially competitive field where other big players will have to accept these roles and will have to improve their quality and will have to really care about their students and what kind of people their students will become.
04:50Gabit Bikahmetov says Kazakhstan's regional position and cultural diversity make it uniquely attractive for students seeking a cross-border education.
04:57In combination with the Soviet fundamental science, with the Chinese advances in innovations, with the Western standards and expectations and ambitions,
05:12And all this, and some kind of oriental kindness and hospitality included in that, and combined with our nomadic dynamism, I think this is going to be a success risk.
05:29With more Western campuses opening, Gabit Bikahmetov believes Kazakhstan is on course to become a globally competitive education model.
05:38Four of Kazakhstan's top research universities have launched supercomputers with a combined capacity of 32 petaflops.
05:45That's 32 quadrillion calculations per second, powerful enough to train AI models, process vast databases, and run advanced scientific simulations.
05:53The country's flagship English language university is leading the way.
05:58Joining us in the studio is Nazarbayev University President, Waqar Ahmad.
06:04Mr. Waqar, welcome and great to have you on.
06:06Thank you for the invitation. I'm delighted to be here.
06:08Can you tell us more about the types of fundamental and applied research your university plans to conduct with the supercomputer capabilities?
06:15The prime example is the development of Kaza LLM, and as we develop further, we would need even greater computing power in order to do that.
06:24If you think that the basic model which was developed, the Kaza LLM, is largely text-based.
06:29So Kaza LLM was a basic model.
06:31We're now building on it.
06:34So there are new systems which focus on voice recognition.
06:37There are new tools which are using image processing and so on.
06:42And some of the new models which will be developed in this area are going to be all singing, all dancing models,
06:49which use text, which use sound, which use image, and so on.
06:53Can you tell me how joint funds help reinforce Kazakhstan's standing as a regional academic and innovations hub?
07:00We are developing new kinds of partnerships, but we're also looking at how we can use the money that we invest in research jointly.
07:06So let's say that if we are investing a million dollars in research in a particular area,
07:13if we were to go into partnership with two other universities, and if they were to match our funding,
07:18we now have three million dollars that we can bid for and they can bid for.
07:22But it also has the inbuilt advantage of collaborative research, which would be of higher quality.
07:28It would get published in more prestigious journals.
07:32More people will use it.
07:34It would enhance the reputation of the university and the reputation of the country.
07:39And it would also address fundamental questions, which face whether they face the economy,
07:45whether they relate to climate change, whether they relate to international relations, and so on.
07:49Thanks so much for being with us today.
07:51It's a pleasure. Thank you.
07:51Bye for now and join us in the next episode of East West Connect.
