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Faculty Development

Given KIMEP’s recent decision to abolish the ranks of College Lecturer and Senior Lecturer and to substitute a Teaching Associate rank (an adjunct/part-time position) (see the Faculty Development Plan 2011-2014 is to ensure that by August 2014, the College faculty pool will consist only of highly qualified professorial-rank academics (see section 1.3.9.1 above), each of whom will:

  • evidence a commitment to KIMEP’s vision and values;
  • deliver a world class education; and
  • make a significant research contribution.

Thus, by 2013-14,

  • all existing College full-time Lecturers and Senior Lecturers will either
    • an appropriate doctoral degree, or
      -  an appropriate masters degree and three papers in refereed journals of international repute (or an equivalent research output); or

      -  have qualified for promotion to the Assistant Professor rank, achieved by holding either:

      -  or be transferred to the rank of Teaching Associate; and

  • all College full-time Professors will either;
    • be intellectually active by publishing one paper in a refereed journal of international repute every two years (or an equivalent research output in accordance with the CSS Faculty Evaluation); or
    • face having their contracts not renewal.

The support and incentives provided to achieve this outcome include:

  • doctoral and academic research training;
  • merit increments to be granted to those engaged in doctoral or academic research who are making exceptional progress;
  • teaching remission for research to depend heavily on undertaking collaborative research with those who are beginning their research careers;
  • summer semester teaching to be restricted to those who are maintaining in satisfactory performance in their doctoral or academic research;
  • teaching remission to be given those engaged in doctoral research;
  • further agreements to be entered into with partner universities to enable junior faculty to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree primarily in Kazakhstan; and

financial and in-kind support to be available, where possible, to assist those engaged in doctoral study and research.