Nazarbayev’s inaugural summer school in London

Students from Nazarbayev University (NU), Kazakhstan, have been studying in a summer school at UCL. After securing a place in the top 40 at NU's School of Engineering, students were invited to spend four-weeks in Bloomsbury. It is the first time NU has sent any of its students away from Kazakhstan on a summer school - ever. While some of the students are from relatively new oil-industry centred towns - such as Akatu - others are from the city of Taraz, which in 2001, celebrated its 2000 year history. UCL became a strategic partner of NU's School of Engineering in 2010. Both share the aim of creating a prestigious and highly-regarded School of Engineering and an internationally respected university in Kazakhstan. Professor Michael Worton, UCL Vice-Provost, described the summer school as being "an important milestone" in the strategic relationship UCL has with the university in Kazakhstan's capital city - Astana.