LATEST NEWS AT KYRGYZ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

On November 17, 2023 a ceremony was held to present scholarships from the Government of the Republic of Korea to students of “Linguistics (Korean language)” department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages. Financial assistance in the amount of 400 to 800 US dollars was presented by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to the Kyrgyz Republic Mr. Lee Wonjae, the Rector of KNU Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov, Director of the Education Center of the Republic of Korea in Bishkek Mr. Kim Jae-Yong, Director of International Cooperation Department Bakyt Keldibekov, President of the Association of Citizens of the Republic of Korea in the Kyrgyz Republic Mr. Kim Kisu and President of the Public Association of Koreans of Kyrgyzstan Vyacheslav Khan.

On November 16, 2023 the Rector of KNU Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov received the program manager of UNESCO-ICHEI, Mr. Tim Tang, who arrived at the National University to install and configure the equipment received as part of the “Smart Classroom” project, as well as to conduct a series of trainings for IT specialists and teachers. Having warmly welcomed Mr. Tang to KNU, the Rector expressed his deep gratitude to him for the smart class provided. “The most important now is to launch it,” noted Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov, “After the launch, we need to train our teachers on how to work in a smart class. I would ask you to work well and closely with them so that there are no problems after you leave. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to come in at any time”.

On November 15, 2023 the traditional ceremony of welcoming the 1st year students of KNU, was held at the Kozhomkul Sports Hall. Rector Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov opened the ceremonial event organized by the Department of Youth Policy and Sports and the Institute of Journalism and Communication. He congratulated the 1st-year students who had just entered the National University and wished them good luck. Then, one of the 1-year students of the Law Institute, Jumabaev Mayrambek, was handed with a symbolic “Student Card”.

On November 15, 2023 KNU Rector Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov received a delegation from the Law Institute of Xinjiang University, headed by Deputy Director Mr. Wang Qingsong. At the meeting in the conference room of the Rector’s office, the parties discussed issues of further strengthening ties between the Kyrgyz National University and Xinjiang University in the field of academic mobility. The members of the delegation were introduced by Baytik Buzurmankulov, Associate professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Forensic Expertise of the Law Institute.

Bakyt Kadyrov, a teacher of the Interfaculty Department of Physical Education and Sports, took part in the world jiu-jitsu championship held in Daugavpils, Latvia on November 10-12, 2023 in the 85 kg weight category and won the championship title. Ainuska Kalil, a student of the Faculty of Biology and a member of the national team of the Kyrgyz Republic in athletics, won the 1st place in the Asian half-marathon championship held in Dubai on November 11 this year. The team of the Department warmly congratulates the sportsmen of KNU on their victories in competitions!

On November 10, 2023 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Guatemala to the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. Jairo David Estrada Barrios, visited KNU. During the meeting with the Rector Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov, issues of establishing cooperation between the National University and Guatemalan universities in the field of academic mobility of students and undergraduates were discussed. The meeting, organized with the assistance of the Department of International Cooperation and Relations, was also attended by: Advisor to the Ambassador of Guatemala to the Kyrgyz Republic Stephanie Garcia Hernandez de Elbay, Vice-Rector for Scientific Work Nazarkul Ishekeyev, Vice-Rector for Administrative and Economic Affairs Bakytbek Aytakhunov, and Head of the Educational Department Almaz Kydyraliev.

On November 10, 2023 the Kyrgyz National University hosted Republican Scientific and Experimental Conference “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Development of Education and Science” on the occasion of the International Day of Science. The Conference was organized by the Institute of Computer Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Before the Conference started, its participants got the opportunity to visit the exhibition organized in the entrance hall. There, representatives of higher educational institutions of the city presented the instruments, devices and various models in the field of science that they had developed.

On October 27, 2023 another seminar focused on the methods of working with scientific databases was held in room 218 of educational building No5. Faculty of foreign languages, Kyrgyz philology, Russian and Slavic philology and teaching staff of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities attended the meeting. Vice-rector for scientific affairs Nazarkul Ishekeev, while opening the seminar, noted that the main goal of the university via such kind of activities is to increase the academic success of our university, improve research activities, rise to the national and international level, publish and improve articles in Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, RINC databases. He also emphasized the need to give foremost importance to these activities.

On October 27, 2023 the Rector of KNU Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov received the President of the Russian State Humanitarian University, head of the history section of the department of historical and philological sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of historical sciences, professor Efim Iosifovich Pivovar. At the meeting in the conference room of the Rector’s office, the parties discussed issues of further development of constructive and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two universities.

On October 25, 2023 the exhibition “Education and Career in the field of AML/CFT” was held at the Large Conference Hall of the main building. It was organized by the International Network Institute (INI) and the International Educational and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring (IEMCFM). The organizers and visitors of the exhibition were welcomed by the Chairman of the State Service on Financial Intelligence department under the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic Kanat Asangulov, the Rector of KNU Tolobek Abdyrakhmanov, the First Deputy General Director of the International Educational and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring Oleg Ivanov, and Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University Mukash Israilov.