Hogyan vonzana be Kazahsztán 150 000 külföldi diákot 2029-ig?

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Hogyan vonzana be Kazahsztán 150 000 külföldi diákot 2029-ig?  Kazahsztán vezető egyetemekkel való partnerségei bővítésével és új kutatóközpontok létrehozásával igyekszik kielégíteni a régió növekvő felsőoktatási igényét. Hogyan támogatják a diákokat a vállalkozásaikban és a deep tech fejlesztésekben az újonnan indított MI-programokkal?  Együttműködésben a MDQ  BŐVEBBEN : http://hu.euronews.com/2025/07/01/hogyan-vonzana-be-kazahsztan-150-000-kulfoldi-diakot-2029-ig  Iratkozzon fel: Az Euronews elérhető 12 nyelven

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00:00With over 1 billion people under the age of 25 across Central Asia and Eurasia,

00:14Kazakhstan is positioning itself as the region's higher education hub,

00:18modernizing universities, building global ties, and drawing in international students.

00:24Welcome to East-West Connect.

00:26We're highlighting business and economic developments in Kazakhstan and the wider Central Asia region,

00:32connecting with Europe and beyond.

00:34Kazakhstan has been part of the European higher education area for 15 years.

00:38After joining the Bologna process in 2010, it began aligning its university standards with Europe,

00:44improving mobility, degree recognition, and quality.

00:47Now, with demand for higher education rising across Central Asia,

00:51Kazakhstan is accelerating transnational education

00:54by inviting global universities to open campuses on its soil.

00:58In the past three years alone, nearly 40 transnational education partnerships have been launched,

01:03including five university branch campuses.

01:05Western universities are already in active collaboration with Kazakhstani institutions,

01:10some 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,

01:22aiming to increase its international student body nearly five-fold,

01:25from 31,500 today to 150,000.

01:29Of the current foreign students, nearly 40% come from India,

01:34mostly in recognized medical programs.

01:36For the first time, Asian students outnumber those from the post-Soviet space.

01:40And in a striking reversal, more Russians are now studying in Kazakhstan than the other way around.

01:46To understand what's driving the shift,

01:48we spoke to the person leading the country's education transformation,

01:52Minister of Science and Higher Education, Sayasat Nurbek.

01:55So we had very clear vision, one, bringing good, big partnerships,

02:03and 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

02:19in critical minerals enrichment and mining and metallurgy.

02:23How are international and domestic students supported

02:26in their entrepreneurship and deep tech development?

02:30Every single university student in Kazakhstan will have to go for AI courses,

02:35get certificates out of 650,000 students.

02:38Over 4,000 students already have certificates.

02:42Then we're launching a $100 million seed fund just to fund AI startups

02:47of 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

02:57UNO CORN, so 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,

03:36big 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,

04:21bringing Western education closer to home.

04:23Offering degrees in business, AI, and education,

04:26it plans to grow from 100 to 400 students by 2029.

04:29My plan is for it to set the new standards,

04:34especially in a commercially competitive field,

04:37where other big players will have to accept these roles

04:42and will have to improve their quality

04:44and will have to really care about their students

04:47and what kind of people their students will become.

04:50Gabitbek Akhmetov says Kazakhstan's regional position

04:52and cultural diversity make it uniquely attractive

04:55for students seeking a cross-border education.

04:57In combination with the Soviet fundamental science,

05:04with the Chinese advances in innovations,

05:07with the Western standards and expectations and ambitions,

05:13and all this,

05:14and some kind of Oriental kindness and hospitality included in that.

05:22And combined with our nomadic dynamism,

05:26I think this is going to be a success risk.

05:29With more Western campuses opening,

05:31Gabitbek Akhmetov believes Kazakhstan is on course

05:33to become a globally competitive education model.

05:38Four of Kazakhstan's top research universities

05:40have launched supercomputers with a combined capacity of 32 petaflops.

05:45That's 32 quadrillion calculations per second,

05:48powerful enough to train AI models,

05:50process vast databases,

05:52and run advanced scientific simulations.

05:54The country's flagship English language university

05:56is leading the way.

05:58Joining us in the studio

05:59is Nazarbayev University president,

06:01Waqar Ahmad.

06:04Mr. Waqar, welcome and great to have you on.

06:06Thank you for the invitation.

06:07I'm delighted to be here.

06:08Can you tell us more about the types of fundamental

06:10and applied research your university plans to conduct

06:13with the supercomputer capabilities?

06:15Prime example is the development of Kaza LLM.

06:17And as we develop further,

06:19we would need even greater computing power

06:23in order to do that.

06:24If you think that the basic model

06:26which was developed with Kaza LLM

06:27is largely text-based.

06:29So Kaza LLM was a basic model.

06:31We're now building on it.

06:34So there are new systems

06:35which focus on voice recognition.

06:37There are new tools

06:39which are using image processing and so on.

06:43And some of the new models

06:44which will be developed in this area

06:45are going to be all singing, all dancing models

06:48which use text, which use sound,

06:51which use image, and so on.

06:53Can you tell me how joint funds

06:55help reinforce Kazakhstan's standing

06:58as a regional academic and innovations hub?

07:00We are developing new kinds of partnerships,

07:02but we're also looking at how we can use

07:04the money that we invest in research

07:06jointly.

07:07So let's say that if we are investing

07:09a million dollars in research

07:12in a particular area,

07:13if we were to go into partnership

07:14with two other universities

07:15and if they were to match our funding,

07:18we now have three million dollars

07:19that we can bid for

07:21and they can bid for.

07:22But it also has the inbuilt advantage

07:24of collaborative research

07:26which would be of higher quality.

07:28It would get published

07:29in more prestigious journals.

07:32More people will use it.

07:34It would enhance the reputation

07:36of the university

07:37and the reputation of the country.

07:39And it would also address

07:40fundamental questions

07:41which face whether they face the economy,

07:45whether they relate to climate change,

07:46whether they relate to international relations,

07:48and so on.

07:49Thanks so much for being with us today.

07:51It's a pleasure.

07:54Bye for now

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