Amantay Nurmagambetov
Adviser to the Director, "Bologna process and academic mobility сenter", MES, Republic of KazakhstanProfessor Amantai Abilkhairovich Nurmagambetov – is an advisor to the Director of the Center of the Bologna Process and Academic Mobility MES RK. He graduated from the Kazakh State University. S.M.Kirov and obtained his Ph.D. in Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov. Doctor Nurmagambetov holds the degrees of Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, he is the author of a number of scientific works in both domestic and international scientific journals, including monographs: Educational the policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the context of the transformation of the higher education system: Almaty: Domino DG, 2002; Strategy for the development of higher education in Europe: Documents. – Almaty: Kazakh University, 2004; Kazakhstan: Transformation of Education and Globalization // Globalization; Rukhsana Zia / – New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2006. Professor Nurmagambetov has extensive experience in science and higher education. Having started his career as a research fellow at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, he continued his career as a teacher at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where he worked as a teacher, assistant professor, Dean of the faculty, director of international cooperation. He has extensive experience in administrative work as the Chief Inspector, Head of the Sector and State Inspector of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He worked as director of the department of strategic planning and information technologies of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was the rector of Aktobe State Pedagogical Institute and Aktobe Regional State University named after K. Zhubanov. For four years he headed the Center for the Bologna Process and Academic Mobility of the MES RK. He is a member of a national team of experts on higher education reform.