Post-accreditation monitoring Educational program “6B02301 – Foreign philology (oriental languages)”

On February 22, 2024, took place an online visit of the expert group of the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) to the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, within the framework was carried out post-accreditation monitoring of the Educational Program “6B02301 – Foreign Philology (Oriental Languages)”. 

In January 2022, this EP successfully passed international accreditation for a period of 5 years in the IAAR (protocol No. 65 of 01/28/2022). The program was highly assessed by external experts as unique, fully provided with human resources, material and technical resources.

The post-accreditation monitoring procedure is common in global accreditation practice and is aimed at monitoring the implementation of expert recommendations and the implementation of the EP development plan.

During the online visit, experts noted the successful functioning of this program, including its undoubted advantages:

1. Highly qualified teaching staff. The presence of foreign teachers in each department - native speakers of oriental languages.

2. Opportunities for professional growth and improvement (foreign internships, advanced training courses, foreign grants for postgraduate education)

3. Strong material and technical base.

4. Provision of educational literature, incl. in oriental languages.

5. Conducting some of the disciplines in English and most of them in oriental languages.

6. Fruitful international contacts.

7. Availability of bases for production, research and teaching practices.

8. High level of academic mobility of students and teaching staff.

9. Implementation of joint educational programs with foreign partner universities, incl. double degree programs.