27/11/2024
Vacancies at the Aktobe Campus of Heriot-Watt University
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Sciences and Software Engineering for Aktobe
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Detailed Description
We are excited to announce faculty positions at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level in Computational Sciences and Software Engineering for our new Aktobe Campus at Zhubanov University, Kazakhstan. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of computer science education in an international context, as part of a prestigious partnership initiated by Zhubanov University with the support of the President of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Institution Overview
About Heriot-Watt University branch at Zhubanov University
Zhubanov University, with the support of the President of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, has partnered with Heriot-Watt University to establish a new HWU campus within Zhubanov University in Aktobe, Kazakhstan. This initiative brings HWU's world-class education to Central Asia, offering students the opportunity to earn a prestigious UK degree while studying in Kazakhstan.
About Zhubanov University
Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University is a leading public university in Kazakhstan, located in the city of Aktobe. Founded in 1935 as a multidisciplinary classical university, it has a long and distinguished history in education and research.
Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in a variety of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. The university's faculty are highly qualified and experienced, with many having undertaken postgraduate or postdoctoral opportunities internationally.
The University is committed to providing students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in their chosen fields, and it holds longstanding links to many industrial bodies in Kazakhstan and beyond.
About Heriot Watt
Heriot Watt has been named as ‘International University of the Year’ in the 2018 Times and Sunday Times University Guide, we have over the past 30 years developed into a truly multinational institution that operates across campuses in Dubai in UAE, Putrajaya in Malaysia, and Edinburgh, Galashiels and Orkney in Scotland, as well as through numerous partnerships that span the globe such as Zhubanov University and online.
Nearly 30,000 students study with Heriot-Watt across business, engineering, design and the social, physical, biological and sports sciences.
We also have developed an unsurpassed international in-country presence beyond our campuses, delivering degree programmes to independent distance learners. Around a third of our student’s study through these routes in most countries around the world. Combined with campus-based study in Dubai and Malaysia, around two-thirds of our student’s study outside of the UK.
You will deliver and assess undergraduate students for our BSc Computational Sciences and Software Engineering (Hons) programme based at Aktobe and engage with Heriot-Watt University international learning partners throughout the globe.