February 2024: Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU) has announced a collaboration with UK-based digital education platform, FutureLearn, following meetings between Ibrayev A.M., Managing Director for Continuing Education at KBTU, and Akzhalova A.Zh., Head of Project Teams at KBTU, and representatives from several of the Global University Systems (GUS) institutions in the UK. The KBTU representatives met with GUS to expand cooperation on joint internships, winter and summer schools, scientific supervision of master's and doctoral students, publication in Scopus journals, training in continuing education, mini MBA, EMBA and joint DBA, life-long learning and executive education.

Based on the signed Memorandum of Cooperation in 2023 between KBTU and the International Istanbul Business Institute, which is a partner of GUS, KBTU had several meetings with the following universities and companies: FutureLearn, London School of Business and Finance, IBAT College, London Business School, The Language Gallery, London College of Contemporary Art, Atlantic Technological University and Hult Business School.

During the visit, KBTU representatives also had meetings with Kings College London Executive Education and Cambridge University Judge Business School Entrepreneurship Hub.

The main outcomes of the meeting with Andy Hancock, CEO of Future Learn, were:

1.1 Providing a platform of FutureLearn for online training and certification programmes.

1.2 FutureLearn supported KBTU’s request to provide free access to train Afghan women within the framework of the United Development Program (UNDP) project on its platform.

1.3 FutureLearn is ready to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation with KBTU and grant the right to promote courses through KBTU for Central Asia and Kazakhstan. FutureLearn is also ready to propose advanced training courses not only for the teaching staff of KBTU but also for other universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan and it is ready to meet with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan while KBTU would be the first pilot of disseminating advanced training through the FutureLearn platform.