Leaders of Kazakhstan business education have got united
October 29, 2015. The second meeting of the newly established Kazakhstan Association for Management Development, where the main objectives and the legal status of the organization was defined took place in Almaty Management University (AlmaU, formerly IAB)
One of the important topics of the meeting was the question of the legal status of the Association. It was agreed to select the "Fund" as a legal form of organization, and rename the organization as Kazakhstan Foundation for Management Development (Kazakhstan Foundation for Management Development, KFMD).
The meeting participants noted, that there are 20 business schools in Kazakhstan today, however according to the ranking of countries in terms of "quality of business schools" Kazakhstan is only on the 96th place. Supporting the state task to join the top 30 developed countries, members of the organization defined the following main objectives:
- Strengthening the integration of education, science and business (Triple Helix);
- Development of business schools, business education and research in management and business development;
- Improvement of the quality of education through the rating system, national and international accreditations;
- Development of the platforms for dialogue (round tables, conferences, meetings);
- Exchange of experience in the development of management in the public sphere, the development of programs in management of NGOs, education, health.
Co-chairmen of the organization are: Alikhan Baimenov, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Regional Hub of the United Nations in the field of civil service; Serik Omirbaev, Director of postgraduate higher education and international cooperation of MES; Assylbek Kozhahmetov, President of Almaty Management University. As the General Director of the Foundation was elected the project manager of the Institute for the Development of Education of School of Public Policy at AlmaU, Ph.D. Jyldyz Amrebayeva.
The Foundation Council, which previously included 16 people, had new members: Enes Kurtan Chyg, representative of the Suleyman Demirel University; Iskander Beisembetov, Rector of KBTU, Yerbol Ismailov, Adviser of Akim of Mangystau region (full list of Board members is attached).
Speaking about the importance of creating KFMD, Assylbek Kozhahmetov said: "There are not enough Kazakhstan authors’ textbooks on management, marketing, finance, etc. There are practically no textbooks and curricula for Master's, MBA, doctoral studies in the Kazakh language. We also lack of contemporary business literature translated from English into Russian and Kazakh. "
There is the contribution made by AlmaU to the solution of this problem – issuing the textbook "Management. Theory and practice of Kazakhstan ", uniqueness of which is that each chapter written by domestic authors, business coaches, and there are Kazakh business cases.
Alikhan Baimenov, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Regional Hub of the United Nations in the field of civil service, finds that the relevance of the KFMD establishment is clear for everyone: "The Committee on the development of research and education of MES should become a member too.
The main number of ideas for the development of management appear among the private sector, corporate sector and large companies. However, international experience shows good ideas for improvement of management efficiency can even be found in the depths of public administration".
The decision on creation of the Association was adopted on the 23rd conference of business education CEEMAN, held this September in Almaty. The initiative of the President of AlmaU Assylbek Kozhakhmetov on the establishment of the Association was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Investment and Development of Kazakhstan as well as the conference participants, among which the leaders of Kazakhstan universities and business schools, representatives of international organizations, public organizations and diplomatic missions in Kazakhstan.
