Anatoliy Bataev, the Rector of Novosibirsk State Technical University NETI, has signed cooperation agreements with two major Kyrgyz universities: Razzakov Kyrgyz State Technical University and Osh State University. The agreements were signed in Bishkek on March 27 during a visit of Russian universities Rectors delegation headed by Mihail Kotyukov, Russian Minister of Education and Science, to Kyrgyzstan.
The agreements provide the students with the short-term and long-term exchange programs at the partner university, including practical training, internships, summer and winter schools participation as well as joint postgraduate training in Master's, Postgraduate and Doctoral programs. The agreement also provides for the joint scientific publication of Novosibirsk and Kyrgyz researchers.
"We are now discussing the introduction of two joint educational programs: in heat power engineering and technosphere safety. Kyrgyzstan is experiencing significant need in trained personnel in these domains. Since heat power engineering is a well-reputed expertise area of our Power Engineering Faculty, we were chosen to create joint educational programs by Kyrgyz colleagues," Anatoliy Bataev commented on the agreement.
It is expected that joint educational programs with Kyrgyz universities will start working in the autumn of 2019. Kyrgyz students will be able to start studying in their universities on educational programs synchronized with NETI, then continue their studies at Novosibirsk State Technical University, and then receive diplomas of the two universities.
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Razzakov Kyrgyz State Technical University is the largest educational and research center for training and retraining of engineering, technical and economic personnel in Kyrgyzstan. The University has more than 19 thousand students, as well as about 200 students of the Lyceum and more than 190 postgraduate students. KSTU consists of 14 structural units with about a thousand of the teaching staff. It employs more than 50 Doctors of Sciences and 220 Candidates of Sciences, 36 academicians and Corresponding Members of a number of state and international academies, including the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. KSTU is accommodated in 14 academic buildings with 50 computer classes, as well as a library and information center.
Osh State University was founded in 1939 by the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of Kyrgyzstan as Osh Teacher's Institute. In 1951 Osh Pedagogical Institute was founded on the basis of Osh Teachers ' Institute. In 1992, the Institute was reorganized into a University by the decree of The President of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. Currently it is the largest higher education institution in Kyrgyzstan, with more than 28 thousand students studying in 72 fields.