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The Central Kazakhstan Academy is one of the leaders of higher education in our region. We train specialists in eighteen Bachelor’s and five Master’s specialties. We train future lawyers, economists, financiers, translators, psychologists, teachers and representatives of other specialties to be in demand on the educational services market, be of interest of employers, scientific and business communities. Our graduates work in the law enforcement system, educational institutions, civil service, and in various other spheres of social and economic life of the Kazakhstani society. They are also in demand abroad.
Our university provides students with unique opportunities for creative growth, professional and personal self-development. We apply innovative educational technologies and preserve the valuable that has been accumulated in classical education systems.
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B.Zh. Zhunusov, Rector of Central - Kazakhstan Academy
Bakhtybai Zholzhaksynovich Zhunusov was born in 1954, in the village of Karagaily, Karkaralinsky district, Karaganda region.
Father is Zholzhaks Zhunusov, a participant of the Great Patriotic War, awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class and other military awards.
Mother - Moldakasheva Rysbala, has worked as a primary school teacher in Karkaraly region for 46 years, is the author of the textbook on the methods of language teaching. In 1963 she was awarded the Order of Lenin.
Since 1971, after graduation from school, he worked as a mechanic at the Karagailinsky mining and processing plant.
Since 1973 to 1975 he served in the Soviet Army.
In 1976 he entered the preparatory department of the KarSU on the recommendation of the Karagailinsky mining and processing plant. In 1982 he graduated from the law faculty of the KarSU. During his studies at the university he was Lenin scholarship holder, a monitor of the group, commander of a student construction brigade, chairman of the student council of the hostel of the law faculty of the KarSU. After graduation, he was recommended for a lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure at the Law Faculty of the University.
Since 1982, he worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor, head of the department of criminal law and procedure of the law faculty of the KarSU.
In 1989 he was elected a dean of the Law Faculty by the faculty staff on the alternative basis.
From 1989 to 1994 he worked as the dean of the law faculty of the KarSU.
From 1994 to 1995 he was appointed Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Kazakh Institute of Law and International Relations.
From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a director of the Karaganda branch of D.A. Kunayev Humanitarian Institute.
From 1997 - 2012 he was the rector of Law Academy “Femida”.
Since 2012 he is the rector of the Central Kazakhstan Academy. He was the initiator of amalgamation of the previously existing universities: the Law Academy “Femida”, the Modern Humanitarian and Technical Institute, the Multidisciplinary Humanitarian and Technical Institute, the Institute of Language and Translation “Lingua”. The Academy is functioning successfully under his leadership. In 2013 it passed the MES RK state certification. In accordance with national and international standards the quality management system has been implemented in 2015. The university passed successfully the National Institutional Accreditation in June 2016. In September, 2016 the university passed the international institutional and specialized accreditation.
In 1986 he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University.
In 1987 B.Zh. Zhunusov was awarded the title of “Associate Professor” by the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR.
In 1994 he defended his doctoral dissertation at Al-Farabi Kazakh State University.
In 1997 B.Zh. Zhunusov was awarded the title “professor” by the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In 2005, he headed Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev’s staff of the candidate for the presidency around the Kazybek-Bi district in Karaganda city, he has President Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev’s letter of acknowledgment for the support provided as a candidate for presidency of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
He has the International Business Academy certificate for attending the seminar “Management of Universities in England” on 11.11.2001 in London.
In 2005 he was awarded the badge “Honorary Worker of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan”.
In 2006 he was recognized as the laureate of the “Criminologist of the Year”.
He was awarded with the diploma and medal for successful business management by Union of Industrialists of France on May 10, 2006 in Paris, “Medal of Napoleon” of the French Industry Association.
He was awarded the international diploma of Moscow Academy of State and Municipal Administration in cooperation with ADVENTUKLIMITED for successful business management on 01.11.2006.
In 2010 he became a laureate of the International Socratic Prize.
In 2010 he was awarded the title of “Professor” of the University of Vienna.
In 2012, he was awarded the badge “Kazakhstan politsiyasyna 20 zhyl”.
In 2012, he was awarded the badge “40 years of E.A. Buketov KarSU”.
В 2013 году награжден ведомственной наградой Министерства юстиции Республики Казахстан нагрудным знаком «Заң» за вклад в развитие органов юстиции.
In 2013, he was awarded a departmental award of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the badge “Zak” for his contribution to the development of justice bodies.
From 2005 to 2009 he sponsored the construction of Victory Park in Karaganda city.
In 2009 he took an active part and he was the only sponsor in the events dedicated to the celebration of the 90th anniversary of Nurken Abdirov.
In 2010, he created “Shor” foundation. Within the framework of the state program ”Cultural heritage of the country” at his own expense B.Zh Zhunusov wrote the genealogy of the Shor clan and organized an event, where more than 15 thousand people took part to be settled in 121 yurts.
In 2011, he took an active part and was a sponsor in events dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Kasym Amanzholov.
In 2014, he became the organizer and main sponsor of the celebrations dedicated to the 190th anniversary of Karkaralinsk city.
For many years he has been helping secondary school # 17 in Karagayly where he was taught. He provides sponsorship. Every year he presents the award to the Best Primary School Teacher in the amount of 150,000 tenge.
In 2014 he was one of the organizers and sponsors of the 50th anniversary of the school.
In 2016 he was a sponsor of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the first Kazakh cosmonaut Toktar Aubakirov and the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first cosmic flight.
Since 2004 he has been publishing the newspaper “Femida Herald”, through it he promotes legal knowledge to the people.
Since 2013 he has been publishing the newspaper “Arka Akshamy”, the only private newspaper in the national language in the region.
In 2015 he was awarded the national certificate “Industry Leader 2015”, the medal “Industry Leader 2015” by the Union of National Business Ratings Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan on the economic ranking of economic entities according to the criterion “Social tax”. He was awarded the order “Honor of economy 2015” according to the economic ranking of economic entities of the Karaganda region according to the criterion “Individual income tax”.
In 2015 he was a Karaganda region delegate at the celebration of the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate in Astana city.
He takes part in international and republican scientific conferences and symposia. Under his leadership, there were defended candidate and doctoral dissertations, he acted as an opponent for doctoral and candidate dissertations. He was a deputy chairman of the Dissertation Council at the Karaganda Legal Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, he was a member of the Dissertation Council for the defense of doctoral dissertations of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University for more than 10 years.
In 2012 he was a Karaganda region delegate at the congress of lawyers of Kazakhstan, where the Republican Public Association “Kazakhstan Union of Lawyers” was formed. Since the day of its foundation, he is an active member, is a member of the council of the Karaganda branch RPO “Kazakhstan Law Society”.
In 2016 he was awarded the international award “United Europe” of the European Business Assembly (ЕВА, Oxford, Great Britain).
He is a leading scientist researcher in the field of criminal law, known not only in the Republic of Kazakhstan, but also in the CIS countries and outside of the Commonwealth of Independent States. He has published more over 100 scientific works, including monographs and textbooks. He is the author of the textbook “Criminal Law (the general part)”.
He pays great attention to the training of highly qualified lawyers. He created Association “Femida”, which included Law College ”Femida”, the law agency and Publishing House “Kent”. More than 100 million tenge of taxes were paid to the budget for the years of the complex’s existence since 1998.
Since the creation of the branch of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan in Karaganda region, he has been an active participant of this public organization, sponsored the Korean Ethnocultural Center, the Jewish Ethnocultural Center, etc.
He has been training highly qualified lawyers for over 30 years. his graduates work in all corners of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the system of law enforcement agencies, in the justice authorities, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the prosecutor’s office, in the Supreme Court.
B.Zh. Zhunusov has been an active promoter of legal knowledge among the population for many years, he takes an active participation in the public life of the city and region.
The characteristic features of B. Zhunusov are modesty, outgoingness, sociability, work ethics, honesty and executive talent.
He was decorated with state awards of the Republic of Kazakhstan: the order “Kurmet” in 2005, the order “Parasat” in 2015, the medal in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2005, the medal in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2011, the medal in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2016.
Kazakhstan Union of Lawyers awarded B.Zh. Zhunusov the title of “Honorary Lawyer” (2017) taking into account his contribution in training of highly qualified lawyers, scientific activity in the field of jurisprudence, his practical activities on the legal education of the population.