Living creatively – the greatest happiness of life...

                          Shota Valikhanov

      78 students took part in the KBTU’s annual Technical English Olympiad on March 31^st, 2012, despite the just completed stressful mid-terms and the long awaited Saturday. The participants were mostly driven by a desire to be selected as the top English speaking students to represent KBTU at the International Internet Technical English Olympiad with its three stages starting April 5^th and finishing May 15th, 2012.

On January 10, 2012 senior lecturer Jacob Reid conducted a seminar for teachers of the English Language Department on the theme «Teaching Academic English: challenges and perspectives».

Jacob Reid presented an overview of current approaches to teaching English for academic purposes, analysis of the English language department’s teaching of Academic English and presented his suggestions for improvements in this area.