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January was an eventful month for IMISP Alumni Business Club.

On December 14, Almaty Management University, represented by the School of Media and Film, as well as the Center for Creative Industries, in partnership with Kazakhfilm Film Studio named after Shaken Aimanov and the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation, held an International scientific and practical conference on the topic: “Media and Film are the leading creative industries in Kazakhstan”. It was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Based on the results of the international program accreditation of the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR), at a meeting of the Accreditation Council on December 23, 2021, it was decided to accredit 6 programs.

On December 11, 2021 AlmaU hosted the official presentation of the book “Searching for an effective model of Kazakhstani University”, collectively written by authors from 12 Kazakhstani universities and published by AlmaU. The book is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Riga Technical University (RTU) has increased its position in the GreenMetric World University Rankings and has become the 50th greenest university in the world. RTU is still the only Latvian higher education institution that is rated so high, because no other Latvian and Baltic higher education institution has been able to rank among the 400 greenest universities.

On December 22nd, the Polish-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (PCCC) and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Canadian Executive MBA (CEMBA) postgraduate program offered at SGH. Under the agreement, PCCC became a strategic partner of the CEMBA program.

Since its establishment as a Banking College under the Bank of Latvia in 1992 BA School of Business and Finance (BASBF), Latvia has grown into a professional higher education institution offering professional Bachelor, Master, Doctoral programs. BASBF remaining relevant to the needs of its students, commits to solutions-focused strategies in modernizing the study programs which respond to an ever-changing world.

In 2021, the HSE Graduate School of Business’ team successfully completed a publishing project to translate and publish the World Economic Forum Reports: "HR4.0: Shaping People Strategies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "Jobs of Tomorrow. Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy". The project was implemented in close cooperation with the World Economic Forum under the HSE University Project Group Competition.

The next groups of the SSE Russia Executive MBA program will be launched in the autumn of 2022. The launch of GM23 group (English speaking group) is scheduled for October, 12 and GMR15 (Russian speaking group) for November, 23. There is a special Early Bird offer for the English-speaking group valid until March, 1 2022.

Coventry University will join some of Africa’s leading providers of executive and business education, including University of Stellenbosch Business School – Executive Development, University of Cape Town – Graduate Business School and Gordon Institute of Business Science, by collaborating academically online with MasterStart.