At the beginning of the current academic year, KAZGUU University Higher School of Economics introduced an minor in the Information Technologies. Dagar Davletov, an IT instructor, talks about the details of the new certification programme.

– Dagar, could you please tell our readers about your success story.

– In 2008 I majored in mathematics, taking part in national and international olympiads. I was trying to combine my university studies and work. In 2012, my friends and I started a company that offered IT services and then we realised that we do not have good computer programmers.

– Will you tell us about your experience as a teacher and share your impressions of students?

– This is my first experience of teaching at a university. Before that, I was invited as a guest lecturer, at universities and colleges.

– Do you think each person should have at least minimal IT skills?

– Certainly. As I said earlier, we opened a programming school, realising the fact that the Kazakhstan society does lacks IT literacy.

– Will you teach our students in the future?

– Seeing the interest of students and leadership of KAZGUU, I think we will reach a mutual agreement, and I will see the students again in the near future.