"I want to begin with the significance that both the Minister and Deputy Prime-minister have
attached to the university's contribution to economic development.This is clearly a theme on
which one could expand very extensively, but the contribution includes a number of different
dimensions, and I think it worth distinguishing some of these. Part of it is certainly about
equipping an economy with higher level understanding and skills, and at the moment many
international companies coming into Kazakhstan have to bring these with them or seek in
the international market place, higher level skills, which in future, one hopes.Kazakhstan w i l l
be able to supply through its own higher education system" - ..