OREANDA-NEWS. December 04, 2014. Prime Minister Karim Massimov has participated in the opening ceremony of new building of Graduate School of Business (GSB) and Graduate School of Public Policy (GSPP) of the Nazarbayev University.

The event coincides with celebration of the Day of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Prime Minister has congratulated the management and students noting that new building will be a logical addition to dynamic developing Nazarbayev University.

"Buildings and equipment themselves can not get the system of Kazakhstan's education to a new level. For this purpose we need the leading professors, talented and creative students. I'm sure you have these qualities in abundance," K. Massimov said addressing the students of the university.

Also as part of the ceremony Memoranda of Cooperation between Nazarbayev University and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, between Nazarbayev University, Ministry of Education and Science and the National Bank of Kazakhstan were signed.

The new building provides large lecture halls, conference rooms of different sizes and videoconferencing rooms which allow to hold large-scale events, seminars and forums of the world level. All planning decisions have been designed with the latest technology of teaching, as well as the latest technologies in energy efficiency. Total building area is more than 19 000 sq. m. The building is designed with the participation of strategic partners of the two schools - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.