Briefing "Organization of the educational process for the 2020-2021 academic year at Kozybayev University"

From September 1, educational activities at our university will be conducted in a distance format. Acting told about this at the site of the Regional Communications Service of the North Kazakhstan region. Acting Chairman of the Board-Rector Yerbol Issakayev; and Acting Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Zhanar Talaspayeva.

The first head of the university informed that lectures and practical classes for pedagogical, humanitarian and IT specialties will be carried out online. The university provides its students with all the necessary content. During the summer period, the university has digitized and purchased more than 6 thousand e-books.

"We continue to strengthen the IT infrastructure for uninterrupted training sessions," Yerbol Issakayev assured. to Do this, the University has increased the number of servers to 11. We purchased an external Internet channel with a bandwidth of 500 m/bit, a Studio of "Multimedia electronic textbook" for recording online courses. Laptops were purchased for students and teachers." Despite such expenses of the University, the price for training at the paid Department will not increase.

Today, the number of students in need of a hostel due to the lack of the Internet is 135 people. They will be provided with places in hostels that are already connected to the Internet.

Students in technical, agricultural, medical and natural sciences, in addition to online lectures, will be able to attend practical classes. Also, access to the laboratory and observatory will be allowed for doctoral students, undergraduates, graduate students for research.

In addition, doctoral students in business, management and law, engineering, manufacturing and construction will continue to study in the traditional format. And some of the second-year undergraduates. Of course, with strict adherence to anti-epidemiological measures.

For this, the buildings are equipped with disinfecting tunnels, non-contact thermometers, sanitizers with antiseptic on the floors. Classrooms, corridors, recreation areas are sanitized, including air disinfection and ventilation, and regular disinfection of public equipment surfaces. Wearing masks is a must. The rules of social distancing will be taken into account: 1 person per 1 sq.m., in laboratories - 5 sq.m.

At the briefing, they recalled that the admission deadline for the military department was postponed to the period from September 1 to September 30.

In total, 7,500 students will start the educational process at Kozybayev University this year, of which more than 2,300 are freshmen.