Aida Sagintayeva

Dean, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University


Doctor Sagintayeva started her professional career from being a faculty at Taraz State University named after M.H.Dulati. She was a Vice-Rector for International Cooperation at the Eurasian National University. She has been involved in educational research projects at the Ministry of Education and Science on gearing Kazakhstan’s higher education system towards the European three-tiered degree system and has coordinated a ministerial initiative aimed at introducing Western PhD programmes in Kazakhstan. Dr. Sagintayeva is a former president of the Bolashak International Scholarship Office.