Today, Kazakh National Women's Pedagogical University announced its partnership with Mersys around the development of the digital teaching skills of Kazakhstani teachers. The partners intend to organize together a series of education seminars and webinars aiming at enhancing the ability to provide distance learning in the most modern manner using the latest teaching techniques and digital tools.
Mersys brings its expertise in the domain of Education Technology. It has designed Campus, a comprehensive cloud-native integrated software that combines all the digital tools required to digitize an educational institution into a single platform. Campus allows educational continuity while cutting down on the complexity of online and hybrid classes. Campus is designed to optimize the full cycle of processes associated with learning management and administration of educational institutions. It is used in more than 12 countries of the world by thousands of students, teachers and school administrators.
About Mersys — Mersys is an Education Technology company headquartered in Neu Isenburg, Germany with operations throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia. “We, at Mersys, are extremely excited about our collaboration with NJSC “Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University”, and I sincerely hope that this collaboration will be fruitful and will benefit to the teachers and future teachers of Kazakhstan.” said Sebastien Condom, the CEO of Mersys.
NJSC "Kazakh National Women’s Teacher Training University" (hereinafter - University) is one of the leading pedagogical universities in Kazakhstan. The main task of the University is to educate teachers who are compétitive, and can adapt and change conditions in their respective schools. Currently, the University is providing education in 49 undergraduate programs, 27 master's programs and 14 doctoral programs, as well as 2 vocational education programs in its own college. The University has ongoing pertnerships with world universities, including Mississippi Valley State University (USA), Silesian University in Katowice (Poland), University of Perpignan Via Domitia (France), Hubei University (China) and many other. The partnerships involve dual degree programs and short-term academic mobility opportunities. The University’s graduate employability rating is 94% (as of 2021).
On behalf of the University staff and students, it is my pleasure to announce our collaboration with Mersys company. The COVID 19 pandemic has taught us the importance of being able to quickly adapt to the ever-changing external circumstances, whereas distance education has become part of our education system. Therefore, teacher education institutes are actively recalibrating their focus on developing and designing distance education programs. As a part of our collaboration with Mersys, we aim to deliver professional development programs for teachers in rural schools in Kazakhstan to improve their IT skills.” - said Dr Gulmira Qanay, Chair of The Managing Board - Rector of the Kazakh National Women’s Teacher Training University.
