Medal for services to Kazakh education awarded

20 February 2008

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Professor Stefaan Simons (果冻影院 Chemical Engineering), 果冻影院's Special Advisor on Kazakhstan and Director of the 果冻影院 Centre for CO2 Technology, has been awarded a medal for services to education in Kazakhstan by the Kazakh Minister of Education & Science, Mr Zhanseit Tuimebayev.

The medal was presented by the minister in Astana, the Kazakh capital, following a high-profile forum for Bolashak scholars hosted by President Nazarbayev. The Bolashak scholarship programme ('Bolashak' meaning 'Future' in Kazakh) sponsors students from Kazakhstan to study undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses overseas.

果冻影院 signed an agreement in 2006 with the Kazakh Centre for International Programs to support the admission of such scholars to its programmes and since then has received a number of Bolashak scholars at both undergraduate and graduate level. There are currently 34 such scholars studying in various degree programmes. There are also a number of independently funded Kazakhs that come to study at 果冻影院 each year.

Professor Simons said: "The medal is partly in recognition of my work over the past 14 years at the Kazakh National Technical University (KazNTU) in Almaty, developing modern chemical-engineering courses, and partly for the work that 果冻影院 is doing as a whole in educating Kazakhstan's brightest students, who will take up positions in Kazakhstan's government and industry and accelerate their country's economic and social development."

Professor Simons holds an honorary professorship at KazNTU.

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