level, and during this time I have learnt a lot from my colleagues, every day was full of new information ‘every day learning’, especially in the beginning of my career at GSE. This period of my life was full of wonderful moments, but I realized about the needs of further development and growth. My final relations with NUGSE finished in August 2017. Comparing previous and present me they are totally different persons. The personal and professional growth is obvious. During these two years critical thinking, risk management, gap analysis and finding new path skills were developing and enhancing course by course as well as digital literacy. No doubt that nowadays, the cost of my CV on the labour market increased for a couple of times. Especially, research skills are crucial and important nowadays for the employers, but the local students a lack of it. Moreover, there is also the fact of the lack of research skills among the staff, for example, according to the personal communication (March, 2018) with one of the staff of “Samruk Kazyna” JSC, there are plenty of people who are conducting research in social science with lack of experience in conducting research (theory, ethics, methodology), which is a main component of the …show more content…
Also, NUGSE teach you to be critical, both positive and negative and it’s important, because among Kazkahstani people being critical is associates mostly with the negative side; and this was achieved by the set of aims, exercises, tasks, audio and video materials, reports, papers. Being critical was memorable as apart of two courses: ‘EDHE 642: Globalisation and Higher Education’ and ‘EDHE 622: Comparative Higher Education’. In the beginning we did not understand what and how to write, so that the professor would be happy, but then, after long attempts with analytical frameworks and useful presentations, we understood what the professor wants from us. Another important component of the program was APA, which I was not familiar with ever in my life as a graduate from local university. Previously I have never thought about citing as an important part of writing. But all of this are connected, with plagiarism and academic integrity and tools which allows us to do it in a proper way, such as ‘Google scholar’, ‘Zotero’, ‘Mendeley’. During the program, I also realized that I cannot complain about the time, because my groupmates who are working and possess families and who was more successful during the