IMPRESSUM

CHARTER

of the Limited Liability Company "Swiss International University"

Kyrgyz Republic,

1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.1. The Limited Liability Company "Swiss International University," hereinafter referred to as the "University," is a commercial educational organization of higher and professional education.

1.2. The University is a legal entity under the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, possessing separate property, with the right to manage property transferred by the Founder, having a seal, a corner stamp, and symbols with its name, as well as an estimate and independent balance sheet, settlement, and other accounts, including in foreign currency in financial-credit institutions.

1.3. The University is independent in making decisions and taking actions arising from this Charter. The interference of state authorities in the organization of the educational process, scientific and economic activities of the University is allowed only in cases provided by the normative legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic.

1.5. The location of the University is: Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek city, Shabdan Baatyr Avenue, 74.

1.6. The property of the University is private.

1.7. The full corporate name of the University in Kyrgyz is: "Швейцариялык эл аралык университети" жоопкерчилиги чектелген коому. The short corporate name in Kyrgyz is: "Швейцариялык эл аралык университети" ЖЧК.

1.8. The full corporate name of the University in Russian is: Limited Liability Company "Swiss International University." The short corporate name in Russian is: OsOO "Swiss International University."

1.9. The short corporate name in English is "Swiss International University LLC" (short form: SIU) and may only use "Swiss University."

1.10. The University’s activities are not limited in duration.

1. STATUS, SUBJECT, AND OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY'S ACTIVITIES

2.1. The University carries out research, educational, upbringing, and other activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic, the laws of the Kyrgyz Republic, resolutions of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic, decrees of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, resolutions of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as the normative legal acts of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, and this Charter.

2.2. The overall management of the University in terms of educational, research, methodological work, staffing, and training of scientific and pedagogical personnel is carried out by an elective body - the academic council, and in terms of organizational and financial activities - by the board of trustees.

2.3. The main objectives of the University are:

2.3.1. Meeting the needs of individuals in intellectual, cultural, and moral development through higher professional education and postgraduate professional education based on the inseparable unity of the educational process and scientific research;

2.3.2. Developing fundamental and applied research in related sciences through the joint activities of scientific and pedagogical staff and students, using the results obtained in the educational process and practical activities;

2.3.3. Training scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel;

2.3.4. Forming a civic position in students;

2.3.5. Preserving and enhancing the moral, cultural, and scientific values of society;

2.3.6. Disseminating knowledge among the population, increasing the intellectual potential of the state.

2.4. To achieve these objectives, the University:

2.4.1. Develops and implements professional educational programs of higher professional education and postgraduate professional education based on state and international educational standards;

2.4.2. Trains scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel;

2.4.3. Conducts fundamental and applied research in various fields of science, acting as a scientific and methodological center in its areas of activity;

2.4.4. Creates creative teams in the most relevant areas of scientific, pedagogical, and educational activities;

2.4.5. Holds scientific conferences, seminars, meetings of various levels, or participates in them;

2.4.6. Establishes scientific contacts, concludes creative agreements for project and program implementation, including with foreign partners;

2.4.7. Publishes monographs, scientific works, textbooks, teaching aids, reference books, dictionaries, methodological, periodical (newspapers, journals, etc.), and popular science literature, as well as cultural and educational publications, among others;

2.4.8. Supports the activities of dissertation councils for defending dissertations for the degree of Ph.D.;

2.4.9. Petitions the National Attestation Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic to confer academic degrees and titles on candidates;

2.4.10. Petitions relevant state authorities of the Kyrgyz Republic to confer honorary titles and awards to its staff;

2.4.11. The University offers educational programs in several languages, including Russian, English, Arabic, and the official languages of Switzerland;

2.4.12. Provides legal protection and commercialization of the University's intellectual property based on the results of scientific research;

2.4.13. Establishes direct bilateral and multilateral connections for the exchange of specialists based on agreements with Kyrgyz and foreign educational institutions, academies of sciences, educational authorities, ministries, departments, enterprises, and organizations;

2.4.14. Provides paid educational, medical, preventive, and other services to the population;

2.4.15. Determines the directions and order of using special funds, including the share allocated for labor remuneration and material incentives for its employees in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;

2.4.16. Organizes the educational process, selects forms and methods of training;

2.4.17. Selects and arranges personnel, including completing the teaching and scientific staff, appointing deans and department heads, heads of structural units, including those operating on a full cost-accounting basis, and heads of other educational and research units (centers, departments, laboratories), based on the volume and form of work performed;

2.4.18. Determines the forms and sizes of labor remuneration for employees in accordance with the current legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;

2.5.19. Develops and strengthens the material and technical base, constructs, equips buildings and premises in accordance with construction norms and regulations, within and at the expense of its own financial and attracted funds, as well as additional sources of funding, including the use of bank loans, for carrying out its statutory activities;

2.4.20. Forms the contingent of students in accordance with the normative legal acts of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic;

2.4.21. Controls academic performance in accordance with this Charter and the normative legal acts of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic;

2.4.22. Develops price lists for educational services, scientific and other products, in coordination with the authorized state body for antimonopoly policy, approves them in the manner established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;

2.4.23. Approves the norms and volumes of the teaching load of the teaching staff, as well as the limits of this load, taking into account the volume of scientific, medical-diagnostic research, and educational-methodical work performed, in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and the normative legal acts of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic;

2.4.24. Introduces new technologies into the education system;

2.4.25. Creates the necessary conditions for the work of catering enterprises for staff and students;

2.4.26. Creates sports and recreational complexes and other forms of leisure for staff and students.

2.5. The University is independent in selecting and arranging personnel - scientific, financial, economic, and other activities within the limits defined by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and this Charter.

2.6. The University implements professional educational programs of higher professional education based on a license for educational activities with the issuance of a state-standard document of higher professional education; the implementation of postgraduate professional education with the issuance of a state-standard document of professional education; the implementation of post-university education programs (preparation of graduate students, doctoral students, etc.).

2.7. The University and its structural units, including those operating on a full cost-accounting basis, for the purpose of implementing statutory tasks, have the right to carry out foreign economic (production and economic) activities in the manner established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

2.8. The University has the right to engage in other activities not prohibited by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

1. STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY

3.1. The University forms its structure in the manner established by this Charter, within the available means, in accordance with the types of activities carried out.

3.2. The University may establish structural units with the status of a legal entity or branches, allocating them property. Structural units do not have the right to create branches and other units.

3.3. The University may establish in the prescribed manner:

3.3.1. Institutes, centers, faculties, departments, courses, general education structures, vivarium, and others;

3.3.2. Units of additional professional education, pre-university preparation (lyceums, preparatory courses), and other structures;

3.3.3. Research laboratories, medical centers, treatment, design-technological, production, publishing, and other structural units, including those operating on a full cost-accounting basis.

3.4. The University's structural units, including those operating on a full cost-accounting basis, may be created with the attraction of private investments from the Kyrgyz Republic and foreign countries.

3.5. The University's structural units, including those operating on a full cost-accounting basis, implementing educational programs of secondary professional education and higher professional education, as well as programs of additional and post-university education, in matters of educational activities must have the powers of the corresponding educational organization.

3.6. Structural units with the status of a legal entity and branches of the University are created, reorganized, and liquidated in the manner established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

3.7. The legal status and functions of the University's structural units are determined by this Charter and the corresponding Regulations on structural units, approved by the director.

3.8. Separate structural units and structural units with the status of a legal entity have a separate income and expenditure estimate and maintain independent accounting.

3.9. The University has the right, in accordance with the current legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and this Charter, to create branches and open representative offices in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, and within the framework of interstate agreements - abroad. The heads of the branches and representative offices of the University are appointed by the rector and act on the basis of the powers of attorney issued to them.

3.9.1. The University has the right to open branches outside the Kyrgyz Republic and acquire other companies worldwide.

3.10. The University, including all its structural units, including those operating on a full cost-accounting basis, functions as a single educational-scientific-production complex. The heads of all structural units are obliged to execute the instructions and decisions of the University management.

3.11. The functioning of the University as a single educational-scientific-production complex is ensured by:

3.11.1. The mandatory participation of all structural units of the University in the training of students, undergraduates, residents, graduate students, and doctoral students in the organization (development) of the educational process and the creation of the material and technical base;

3.11.2. The execution of decisions of the Academic Council, orders, and directives of the rector, vice-rectors by all structural units of the University.

3.12. The University has the right to form admission commissions in regions and districts of the republic, including in foreign countries.

1. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

4.1. The University trains specialists in accordance with the List of directions and specialties of higher education in the Kyrgyz Republic, approved in the manner established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

4.2. The opening and financing of new directions or specialties at the University are carried out by the founder if there is a license to conduct educational activities.

4.3. The University trains personnel under contracts with individuals and legal entities with payment of the cost of education. The presence of a license and compliance with the requirements of state educational standards are mandatory.

4.4. Individuals with secondary general and secondary professional education are admitted to the first year of bachelor's programs.

4.5. The main criteria for admission to the University are the level of knowledge and abilities of the applicant.

4.6. Citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic who have studied in foreign educational institutions must provide an education document equivalent to the state document on secondary general education, secondary or higher professional education in the Kyrgyz Republic.

4.7. Admission of foreign students: The University independently has the right to recognize or reject foreign educational institutions without the need for a certificate of compliance with the level of education issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic.

4.8. The University has the right to issue private diplomas under its name, independent of the Ministry of Education.

4.9. Based on the results of admission, an order is issued by the rector to enroll applicants.

4.10. The educational process at the University is built on the pedagogically justified choice of means, forms, and methods of teaching.

4.11. The University independently selects the grading system, forms, procedures, and frequency of intermediate certification of students. The main types of classes for all forms and levels of education are determined by curricula and programs that ensure compliance with educational standards. In addition to the main types of classes, the University may introduce, as additional services, elective and other types of classes aimed at developing students' interests and creative abilities.

4.12. Education under the main professional educational programs at the University is conducted in Kyrgyz or in several languages, including Russian, English, Arabic, and the official languages of Switzerland, based on the tasks of ensuring high-quality education, meeting students' requests, and considering the available possibilities for personnel and methodological support of the educational process.

4.13. The duration of training, the beginning and end of the academic year, the weekly load of students with mandatory educational classes, the terms and duration of examination sessions and holidays, as well as the types of practical training and forms of completion are established by curricula in accordance with the requirements of state educational standards.

4.14. The duration of classroom activities (academic hour) is independently determined by the University and is 45 minutes.

4.15. The organization of the educational process at the University is based on the desire to ensure high-quality education, create safe learning and living conditions for students.

4.16. Admission to the University for education on a contract basis is conducted by application of persons with secondary general or secondary professional education, on a competitive and/or contractual basis. The conditions of the competition must guarantee the observance of citizens' rights in the field of education and ensure the enrollment of citizens who are most capable and prepared to master educational programs of the corresponding level and/or degree.

4.17. The transfer of students to continue their education at the University from other educational organizations, as well as the transition from one main educational program to another, regardless of the course, form, and type of training, is carried out based on the procedure for transferring students at the university.

4.18. The transfer of a student to the university from another university for further education, including from one main educational program of specialty/direction to another, in all forms of education, as well as with their change, is carried out based on certification upon the student's personal application, by reviewing a copy of the grade book/transcript of the assessment sheet.

4.19. The certification commission reviews the student's application within 10 days from the date of application, but no later than the beginning of academic classes. The academic difference is determined in credits (credit units) according to the credits received based on the transcript/assessment sheets and included in the student's individual curriculum. The academic difference must be eliminated within the current academic year.

4.20. The transition of a student from one main educational program to another (including with a change in the form of education) within the university is carried out after the end of the semester, if there are vacancies on the corresponding course for the specialty of interest to the student, in accordance with this procedure based on the student's personal application and presentation of the grade book/transcript.

4.20.1. The student retains their student ID and grade book/transcript, in which the corresponding corrections are made, certified by the signature of the rector (vice-rector) and the university's seal, and records are made of passing the difference in curricula. A new student card is issued. If the student studied under a contract with an organization, their transfer must be preceded by the organization's consent.

4.21. A student may be expelled for violating the provisions of this Charter, internal rules and public order at the University and its structural units, academic failure, non-compliance with the individual plan, non-certification based on the results of the academic year, non-compliance with the terms of the contract for paying tuition fees, and other disrespectful reasons.

4.21.1. Respectful reasons include: medical indications and other exceptional cases when the student is granted an academic leave in the prescribed manner; medical indications and other exceptional cases when the student is granted an academic leave in the manner established by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.

4.21.2. Expulsion of a student from the university is carried out at the student's own initiative by the rector's order, based on a personal application:

• of their own free will (without specifying specific reasons);

• in connection with the transfer to another university;

• due to illness (based on a medical certificate);

• due to family circumstances.

4.21.3. In the case of academic debt, the student must retake the course. The payment for retaking the course and additional classes is made according to a separate calculation at the established tuition fee for the academic year. Retake courses, if there are academic debts, are conducted only after payment. Expulsion at the administration's initiative is carried out by the rector's order, based on the report of the head of the corresponding academic unit:

• for academic debt;

• for violation of academic discipline (failure to comply with the academic schedule, loss of contact with the university, failure to return from academic leave after its term);

• for violation of internal rules, dormitory living rules;

• in connection with the failure to pass the state final certification;

• for committing illegal actions after the court's sentence comes into force, which sentenced the student to imprisonment or another punishment, excluding the possibility of continuing education;

• in connection with the failure to comply with the terms of the contract for paying tuition fees, non-reimbursement of training costs.

4.21.4. A disciplinary penalty may be imposed on a student after receiving an explanation from them in writing. Refusal to provide such an explanation is formalized by an act, which is subject to registration and cannot serve as an obstacle to the application of the penalty.

4.21.5. When expelled at the administration's initiative, the student is necessarily notified in writing of the reasons and deadlines for expulsion.

4.21.6. When expelled, the student is issued the original education document and, upon their request, an academic certificate of the established form.

4.22. Reinstatement of students is carried out after the end of the semester, if there are places on the corresponding course for the specialty/direction of interest to the student, based on the student's personal application and presentation of an academic certificate.

4.22.1. The possibility of reinstatement of students previously expelled from the university is considered by the certification commission based on the student's academic record/transcript. In the case of a positive decision on reinstatement, an order is issued on enrollment due to reinstatement. The student is issued a student ID and, if necessary, a grade book, a new personal file of the student is formed, in which the application for reinstatement, academic certificate, education document, extract from the order on enrollment in the reinstatement procedure, individual curriculum are recorded.

4.23. A student expelled due to academic debt can be reinstated in the place under the contract for training only after eliminating all debts and paying for the current semester at the time of reinstatement.

4.24. The procedure for taking state exams is established by the higher educational institution. The duration of the state certification commission's session should not exceed 6 hours per day.

4.25. If all types of final certification tests included in the state final certification are successfully passed, the graduate is awarded the corresponding professional qualification and issued a state-standard diploma. The University does not undertake the obligation to employ the graduate.

4.25.1. A diploma with honors is awarded to a graduate who passed exams with an "excellent" grade in at least 75% of all disciplines included in the diploma supplement, and in the remaining disciplines included in this supplement, with a "good" grade, and passed the final state certification only with excellent grades.

4.26. Individuals who have completed the main educational program and did not confirm their training compliance with the requirements of the state educational standard of higher professional education when passing one or several final certification tests, upon reinstatement, are assigned to retake the final certification tests in the manner determined by the university. In this case, an academic certificate of the established form is issued.

4.27. Students studying under contracts with legal and physical entities have the right to receive scholarships at the expense of the sending party in accordance with the terms specified in the contracts.

4.28. The number of students in study groups in the first and second years, when studying at the expense of contract funds, is established by the University within the volumes of contract financing. In the subsequent years of education, the number of students in groups is established by the University within the allocated volumes of financing and approved by the rector.

4.28. Production practice for students is an essential part of the educational process in training specialists with higher medical and pharmaceutical education and represents a systematic and targeted activity of students to master practical skills and deepen theoretical knowledge at each stage of training.

4.29. The terms and content of production practice are determined by the educational standards of the specialty, curricula, and programs. The practice is conducted in organizations corresponding to the profile of specialist training.

4.30. The bases for production practice for students are established on a contractual basis.

4.31. Direct supervisors of production practice are appointed by the rector's order.

4.31. The methodological support, control of the organization of practice, and current certification of students are carried out by the head of production practice and a teacher appointed by the rector's order from the teaching staff responsible for conducting the production practice.

4.32. The responsibility for organizing and conducting production practice lies with the vice-rector, head of production practice, deans of faculties, heads of departments within their competence, and heads of the production practice.

4.33. The content and planning of production practice at all its stages should ensure compliance with state requirements for the minimum content and level of specialist training depending on the specialty, qualification, duration of training, and the relationship between practice and theoretical training.

4.34. The educational and methodological guidance of production practice is carried out by the corresponding faculties and departments of the University.

1. 1. The University offers various programs, including:

4.35.1. Bachelor of Science (BSc) (students who studied 11 years at school will undergo a 4-year program; foreign citizens with 12-year secondary education will study for 3 years). Students who have not completed or have not started the final year of study will receive a partial diploma of professional education (e.g., BBA or LLB or Executive Bachelor or Professional Bachelor) in all licensed educational areas.

4.35.2. Master of Science (MSc) (2 years). Students who have completed only 1 year will receive a partial diploma of professional education (e.g., MBA or LLM or Executive Master or Professional Master) in all licensed educational areas.

4.35.3. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (3 years). Students who have completed only 2 years will receive a partial diploma of professional education (e.g., DBA or LLD or Executive Doctorate or Professional Doctorate) in all licensed educational areas.

4.35.4. Diploma 6 years (for students who completed 12 classes, the training period will be 5 years).

4.36. Students have the right to:

• Receive knowledge and professional skills not below the requirements of the corresponding state educational standard;

• Courses of choice and specializations offered by the University within the state educational standard framework;

• Attend additional types of classes conducted at the University on a paid basis;

• Transfer to another educational professional program or another university in the prescribed manner;

• Participate in all types of research work, conferences, symposia;

• Present their work for publication, including in the University's publications;

• Use educational-laboratory premises, libraries, dormitories, sports facilities, equipment of educational, scientific, and other units in the manner determined by the corresponding regulations;

• Postponement from conscription into the armed forces, in the manner established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;

• Create public organizations to address student life issues;

• Undergo summer production practice at the place of permanent residence (at their request). In this case, they must provide a diary and a full report on the passage of production practice, certified by the head of the healthcare organization, and pass certification at the university in the manner determined by the University;

• At least twice a year, they are provided with holidays with a total duration of not less than seven but not more than ten weeks.

4.37. A student must:

• Attend all types of educational classes and complete all types of assignments provided for in the curricula and training programs on time;

• Master theoretical knowledge, professional skills, and the ability to conduct modern scientific research at the level of educational standards;

• Comply with the Charter and the University's Code of Ethics, terms of concluded contracts, internal rules, and other regulations;

• Adhere to the moral and ethical norms of society.

1. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

5.1. The University, in all its educational-scientific units, obligatorily carries out fundamental, exploratory, and applied scientific research in accordance with thematic plans approved by the academic council, which is an integral part of specialist training.

5.2. The fundamental principle of implementing scientific-research activities at the University is ensuring the integration of scientific and educational processes - training scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel, involving students in creative work and scientific research, writing monographs, textbooks, and teaching aids.

5.3. The main tasks of scientific-research work are: developing theoretical and applied problems, scientific foundations of new technologies, performing research work of scientific and methodological nature, disseminating scientific knowledge and providing research support for specialist training, implementing the results of scientific research in practice, promoting achievements in science, technology, and culture.

5.4. The main directions of scientific activity of the University are approved by the academic council.

5.5. Scientific activities at the University are carried out by: teaching staff, research staff, doctoral students, graduate students, students, as well as highly qualified researchers and specialists from outside.

5.6. The organizational structure of scientific activity is based on departments and laboratories, research centers and institutes, information and innovation centers, other educational and research units, doctoral and postgraduate studies, dissertation councils, publishing house, scientific library.

5.7. Scientific activities at the University can be funded by grants and other sources of financing not prohibited by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, which are transferred in the prescribed manner to scientific-pedagogical staff or the University.

5.8. The University provides comprehensive support for scientific research by the teaching staff and other employees of the University, doctoral students, graduate students, students, and other individuals.

5.9. Planning scientific activities, which may be funded by the state budget (state order for scientific research and project work), is carried out at the University in accordance with approved scientific-research (scientific-technical) programs.

5.10. Planning of initiative research, scientific-research works performed under contracts, as well as other types of creative work, is carried out at the University in accordance with thematic plans approved by the rector on the recommendation of the University's Academic Council.

5.11. Scientific activity also includes:

5.11.1. Publishing scientific works, periodicals, and series publications;

5.11.2. Holding scientific conferences, symposia, congresses;

5.11.3. Opening and coordinating the activities of dissertation councils for defending candidate and doctoral dissertations;

5.11.4. Performing scientific-methodological activities.

5.12. The main issues of scientific activity at the University are coordinated by the scientific-technical council on science, which carries out:

5.12.1. Selection of scientific project applications for state and grant funding;

5.12.2. Hearing and approving annual plans and reports on funded topics;

5.12.3. Evaluating the scientific significance and approving the plan of priority scientific-research works;

5.12.4. Approving scientific dissertation topics of graduate students, applicants, doctoral students;

• Organizing and holding international congresses, conferences, scientific sessions, and seminars;

• Establishing business contacts in the Kyrgyz Republic and abroad, sending and receiving foreign partners to address issues related to the University's activities;

5.12.5. Resolving other important issues of the University's scientific activities.

5.13. The University's Academic Council:

5.13.1. The Academic Council of the University is a recommendatory public-professional body. Members of the Academic Council of the Center are elected for a term of 1 year by secret ballot, upon the rector's recommendation.

5.13.2. The Academic Council may include leading scientists and specialists who do not work at the University.

5.13.3. The Academic Council is authorized to make decisions if at least two-thirds of its members are present at the meeting. The decisions of the Academic Council are considered adopted if more than half of the members participating in the vote voted for them.

5.13.4. The chairman of the Academic Council is the rector or director of the University.

5.14. The name of the university in English is Swiss International University (SIU), and it is allowed to offer distance education using its own platform for international students in several languages. The University has the right to open branches worldwide and acquire other companies. It can issue private diplomas independent of the Ministry of Education. It has the right to recognize or reject foreign educational institutions without the need for a certificate of compliance from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic.

1. LISTENERS, RESIDENTS, APPLICANTS, GRADUATE STUDENTS, DOCTORAL STUDENTS

6.1. Applicants for academic degrees are individuals with higher professional education, affiliated with the University for preparing a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sciences without studying in graduate school, individuals with the degree of Candidate of Sciences, and preparing a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Sciences without studying in doctoral studies.

6.1.1. Applicants for academic degrees independently working on doctoral dissertations can be individuals with the degree of Candidate of Sciences. Individuals with the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) must undergo the procedure of dissertation examination and nostrification of the Ph.D. diploma at the Higher Attestation Commission, followed by the issuance of a Candidate of Sciences diploma in the relevant field.

6.1.2. Applicants for academic degrees independently working on candidate dissertations can be individuals with higher professional education confirmed by a specialist's diploma.

6.2. Graduate school is a form of training scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel.

6.2.1. Graduate students are individuals with higher professional education and studying in graduate school to prepare a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sciences.

6.2.2. The training of graduate students is carried out in scientific specialties in accordance with the nomenclature of scientific worker specialties approved by the authorized state body in the field of science.

6.2.3. Training in graduate school is carried out in full-time and part-time forms, on campus, remotely, or online.

6.2.4. Citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic with higher professional education are admitted to graduate school on a competitive/contractual basis. Training of graduate students at the University on a paid basis is carried out in accordance with contracts concluded with individuals and legal entities.

6.2.5. Admission to graduate school is conducted 2-4 times a year. For the organization of admission to graduate school, an admission commission is created under the chairmanship of the rector (vice-rector) of the University, including future graduate students' scientific advisors.

6.2.6. Individuals applying for graduate school undergo a preliminary interview, the results of which are reported to the admission commission.

6.2.7. The duration of full-time graduate school (adjuncture) is 3 years, and part-time - 4 years. The training period for full-time and part-time graduate school (adjuncture) is counted as scientific and scientific-pedagogical experience.

6.2.8. During the training period in graduate school, the graduate student must:

• Fully complete the individual curriculum;

• Pass all candidate exams (history and philosophy of science, foreign language, special discipline according to the dissertation topic);

• Complete the dissertation and have it discussed at the place of completion.

6.2.9. Dissertation topics, scientific advisors, and individual curricula of graduate students are approved by the Academic (Scientific-Technical) Council of the University and the scientific organization simultaneously and formalized by an order of the head within 3 months after the start of training.

6.2.10. Scientific advisors for graduate students are approved as Doctors of Sciences in the relevant or related specialty. By the decision of the Academic (Scientific-Technical) Council of the University, candidates of sciences in the relevant specialty may be involved in scientific supervision of graduate students.

6.2.11. The total number of graduate students (applicants) assigned simultaneously to one scientific advisor should not exceed 5 people.

6.2.12. Graduate students conducting scientific research at the intersection of two specialties are allowed to work under the guidance of two scientific advisors. The scientific advisor controls the graduate student's implementation of the approved individual curriculum.

6.2.13. The graduate student annually presents a report to the department. All reports of graduate students during the training period in graduate school are retained and submitted together with the dissertation. A graduate student who fails to complete the individual curriculum within the prescribed period is expelled from graduate school by the rector's order of the University.

6.2.19. The transfer of graduate students from one scientific organization or university to another, as well as from full-time to part-time training and vice versa, and the reinstatement of a graduate student expelled from graduate school before the end of the training period is carried out only by the decision of the Academic (Scientific-Technical) Council. The transfer and reinstatement are made upon the graduate student's personal application to the rector of the University.

6.2.20. Graduate students studying full-time have the right to perform paid scientific and teaching work, provided they fulfill their individual training plan. Graduate students are provided free access to laboratories, offices, scientific libraries, experimental facilities, as well as services of educational, scientific, medical, and other units of the University in the prescribed manner.

6.2.21. The payment for scientific advisors is calculated at 50 hours per graduate student per year, including cases where two scientific advisors are approved. Additional payments for scientific advisors of graduate students are established at the expense of off-budget funds.

6.2.22. Graduate students studying full-time in graduate school are granted annual vacations of 2 months.

6.2.23. The University, in accordance with contracts with enterprises, universities, and organizations, may, if necessary, provide preliminary internships for individuals applying for graduate school (adjuncture) for up to 36 months.

6.2.24. Social guarantees and benefits for individuals applying and studying in graduate school (adjuncture) are determined in accordance with the labor legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

6.3. Doctoral studies are a form of training scientific-pedagogical and scientific personnel of the highest qualification at the University.

6.4. The University will work with partners to obtain an ISSN, which will be approved for publications.

6.5. The payment for scientific consultants of doctoral students is calculated at 50 hours per year per doctoral student. Additional payments for scientific consultants of doctoral students are established at the expense of off-budget funds.

6.6. A doctoral student may conduct research independently or under the guidance of a scientific consultant - Doctor of Sciences. Leading scientists and specialists from external scientific organizations may be involved as scientific consultants.

6.7. Doctoral studies conclude with the formalization of research results in the form of a doctoral dissertation.

6.8. Annually, the doctoral student presents a report on the work done to the Academic (Scientific-Technical) Council of the University.

6.9. A doctoral student who fails to complete the individual plan is expelled from doctoral studies by the rector's order of the University.

6.10. A doctoral student expelled from doctoral studies before the end of the training period is reinstated for the remaining training period by the rector's order based on the decision of the Academic (Scientific-Technical) Council if the individual plan is fulfilled in the volume lacking at the time of expulsion.

6.11. Creative leave to complete the doctoral dissertation and additional time after the end of doctoral studies are not provided.

6.12. BASIC DOCTORAL STUDIES (PHD) / BY PROFILE

6.12.1. Citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic, foreign citizens, and stateless persons with higher professional education confirmed by a master's or specialist's diploma are eligible for admission to basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile in accordance with this Regulation and international agreements in force.

6.12.2. Documents submitted for admission to basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile:

• Application to the head of the university or scientific institution;

• Notarized copy of the higher education diploma with the qualification of "master" or in the specialty or direction of "specialist";

• Passport or military ID (for citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic).

6.12.3. The competition for admission to basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile is conducted based on the results of entrance examinations in the specialty.

6.12.4. For organizing admission to basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile, an admission commission is created by the university's or scientific institution's order under the chairmanship of the head of the university or scientific institution, consisting of highly qualified scientific-pedagogical and scientific personnel, including future PhD / doctoral advisors. The composition, powers, and procedure for the activities of the admission commission are determined by the regulations approved by the university or scientific institution. The term of the admission commission is one year. The work of the admission commission and record keeping is organized by a technical secretary appointed by the head of the university or scientific institution. The entrance examinations in the specialty are conducted by examination commissions created by the university's or scientific institution's order, consisting of specialists with a degree of Doctor of Sciences or the title of professor in the specialty for which the examination is conducted. Commissions for foreign languages and creative specialties may consist of qualified teachers without an academic degree and title. For admitting foreign citizens, a traveling commission may be organized outside the Kyrgyz Republic. The powers and procedure for the activities of examination commissions are determined by the regulations approved by the authorized state body in the field of education and science of the Kyrgyz Republic. Admission to basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile is formalized by an order of the head of the university or scientific institution.

6.12.5. The curriculum for basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile is developed and approved by the University.

6.12.6. The duration of training in basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile is at least 3 years. When studying according to an individual curriculum, the University has the right to extend the training period, but not more than 4 years. Training in basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile is carried out full-time, and the use of distance learning technologies is allowed.

6.12.7. The workload of the program is from 180 to 240 credits, depending on the program's features, of which at least 60 credits are allocated to studying academic disciplines. The workload of research work is at least 120 credits, including practices and/or internships of various purposes, as well as all types of certification, including the public defense of the PhD dissertation.

6.15.8. During the training period, the doctoral student must publish at least two scientific articles reflecting the scientific results of the dissertation research in scientific journals with a non-zero impact factor, indexed by international systems such as Web of Science and Scopus or registered ISSN by the Swiss National Library.

6.12.9. During the training period, the doctoral student must undergo a foreign research internship or practice for at least one month.

6.12.10. During the training period, the doctoral student's individual curriculum is allowed. The doctoral student's research work (hereinafter - RW) is certified by the scientific advisors once a year according to the curriculum. The RW schedule is specified in the doctoral student's individual plan.

6.12.11. The University provides the doctoral student with the scientific guidance of two scientific advisors with a degree not lower than PhD / doctor by profile, one of whom must be a scientist from a foreign university. Scientific guidance can be carried out using distance learning technologies. The professional competence of the scientific advisor is confirmed by at least two scientific publications over the past five years in foreign and domestic scientific journals with a non-zero impact factor, indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases or registered ISSN by the Swiss National Library, and presentations at reputable scientific forums. For a foreign university's scientific advisor, the procedure of nostrification of the PhD diploma is not required.

6.12.12. In the absence of foreign scientific advisors by profile, scientific guidance can be carried out by one scientific advisor - a specialist in the relevant profile, with work experience in a foreign university and actively working in the relevant field of science. Requirements for the PhD dissertation, its defense

6.12.13. The PhD dissertation must meet the following requirements:

• Correspond to the relevant issues of priority national importance;

• Correspond to the profile in which the PhD dissertation is defended;

• Be based on advanced theoretical, methodological, and technological achievements in science, technology, and production;

• Contain specific practical recommendations, solutions to theoretical and/or applied problems;

• The results must be implemented at the institutional level and/or in the industry.

6.12.14. The PhD dissertation topic is approved by the academic council or scientific-technical council in the manner established by the university or scientific institution.

6.12.15. The PhD dissertation is submitted to the structural unit of the university or scientific institution supervising the organization of training in basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile (hereinafter - the basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile unit) no later than three months before the end of the training period in basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile.

6.12.16. The basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile unit organizes a plagiarism check. The originality of the PhD dissertation text must be:

• Social and human sciences - at least 75%;

• Natural sciences, technical, physical-mathematical sciences - at least 85%;

• Medical, agricultural, and biological sciences - at least 88%.

6.12.17. The basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile unit conducts the following stages of PhD dissertation examination:

• Examination of the PhD dissertation conducted by the jury in parallel with the public discussion;

• Preliminary defense before the jury members at the place of the dissertation research;

• Public defense of the PhD dissertation.

6.12.18. The basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile unit organizes a public discussion of the PhD dissertation by posting the text on the University's website no later than two months before the preliminary defense. As a result of the public discussion, the doctoral student must receive at least two external reviews.

6.12.19. Based on the examination, the jury members must present a conclusion on the PhD dissertation. The conclusion reflects the following issues:

1. Approval of the dissertation research topic, justification for changes if the topic is changed;

2. Scientific guidance, justification for decisions if replaced;

3. Whether the PhD dissertation is presented for the first time or repeated, comprehensive information on addressing comments on the PhD dissertation if presented again;

4. Relevance of the chosen topic;

5. Compliance of the PhD dissertation content with the title and profile of the program;

6. Reliability of research results, validity of conclusions and recommendations;

7. Novelty of the scientific results presented for defense;

8. Scientific, practical, economic, social significance of the research results and evidence confirming this significance;

9. Presentation of the scientific results of the dissertation research in published works, with a list and nature of publications attached;

10. Personal contribution of the author to obtaining the scientific results presented in the PhD dissertation.

6.12.20. After the PhD dissertation examination by the jury and the public discussion, the basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile unit organizes the preliminary defense with the participation of the jury members. The procedures and schedule for the preliminary defense are determined by the university or scientific institution implementing the basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile program, and they also provide a technical secretary for the jury.

6.12.21. At the preliminary defense, the doctoral student presents:

1. Reviews from scientific advisors;

2. Scientific publications with the results of the dissertation research;

3. External reviews;

4. Public presentation with a summary of the dissertation research and its scientific results.

6.12.22. Based on the preliminary defense results, the jury members make the following decisions:

1. Recommend the PhD dissertation for defense;

2. Recommend the PhD dissertation for defense after addressing comments;

3. Reject the PhD dissertation. The doctoral student is given a period of three to six months to address comments.

6.12.23. The PhD dissertations with addressed comments and completed recommendations given during the preliminary defense at the place of dissertation research, confirmed by the jury members' signatures on the PhD dissertation agreement sheet, are allowed for public defense.

6.12.24. To conduct the preliminary and public defense, the university's or scientific institution's head forms a jury of five members. The jury includes:

1. Two opponents from other universities or scientific institutions, one of whom must be from abroad;

2. Representatives of other universities or scientific institutions. Candidates for inclusion in the jury must be specialists with a degree not lower than PhD / doctor by profile, with scientific publications in domestic and foreign scientific journals over the past 5 years, including at least two publications in scientific journals with a non-zero impact factor, indexed by international systems such as Scopus, Web of Science, or registered ISSN by the Swiss National Library.

6.12.25. A month before the public defense, an announcement is posted on the University's website about the time and place of the defense, the dissertation topic, information about the doctoral student, and the scientific advisors.

6.12.26. The procedures for the preliminary and public defense are formalized in the jury meeting minutes. The PhD dissertation defense procedure must be recorded on video.

6.12.27. The procedures for conducting and documentation of the public defense of the PhD dissertation are determined by the university or scientific institution conducting the defense.

6.12.28. Doctoral students whose PhD dissertations were rejected by the jury are considered to have not completed the individual plan and are subject to expulsion from basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile by the university's or scientific institution's head order based on the basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile unit's representation. In this case, expelled doctoral students are issued an academic certificate within two weeks based on a personal application by the university or scientific institution. The procedure for appealing the jury's decision

6.12.29. Based on the jury's decision, the doctoral student (applicant) has the right to submit a written appeal to the appeal commission on the negative decision of the jury.

6.15.30. The appeal on the negative decision of the jury is submitted by the doctoral student (applicant) in free form to the university's or scientific institution's head, where the public defense of the dissertation was held, within 2 (two) months from the date of the decision. The procedure for conducting an appeal is independently approved by the university or scientific institution in accordance with the norms of this Regulation.

6.12.31. Within 10 (ten) working days from the date of the appeal submission, the university's or scientific institution's head order creates an appeal commission (hereinafter - the Commission). The Commission includes 3 (three) specialists with a scientific degree in the relevant specialty and a technical secretary (without voting rights) from the specialists of the basic doctoral studies (PhD) / by profile unit of the university or scientific institution. The Commission members cannot be scientific consultants, reviewers, and jury members. The Commission is guided by the norms of this Regulation in its activities.

6.12.32. The Commission reviews the appeal, the dissertation, the materials of the dissertation council on the PhD dissertation defense, prepares a conclusion on the appeal results, and makes a decision within 30 (thirty) calendar days from its creation.

6.12.33. The Commission's decision is made by open voting, by a majority vote, and signed by all its members.

6.12.34. The Commission's decision and conclusion are sent to the university or scientific institution within 15 (fifteen) calendar days for reconsideration by the jury. The jury's decision on the appeal is final and communicated to the doctoral student (applicant).

6.12.35. The jury's decision on the appeal is communicated to the doctoral student (applicant) by the university or scientific institution within 5 (five) days from the date of its adoption and posted on the university's or scientific institution's website.

6.12.36. If the doctoral student (applicant) disagrees with the final decision of the jury on the refusal to award the PhD / doctor by profile degree, the decision can be appealed in court. Awarding the PhD / doctor by profile degree and issuing the diploma

6.12.37. The doctoral student who successfully defended the PhD dissertation and fully completed the curriculum is awarded the PhD / doctor by profile degree with the right to conduct scientific and other professional activities, and a diploma is issued.

6.12.38. The jury's decision to award the PhD / doctor by profile degree is considered positive if at least two-thirds of the jury members present at the meeting voted for it.

1. UNIVERSITY STAFF

7.1. The University provides positions for: administrative director, academic rector, vice-rectors, heads of structural units, deans of faculties, heads of departments, scientific-pedagogical staff (teaching staff, research staff), engineering-technical, administrative-economic, educational-assisting, service, and other personnel.

7.2. The scientific-pedagogical staff has the right to:

7.2.1. Determine the content of the disciplines they teach in accordance with the requirements of state standards;

7.2.2. Free choice of teaching and research methods and means, ensuring high efficiency of the educational and scientific processes;

7.2.3. Paid leave in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;

7.2.4. Creative leave for professional development and writing textbooks for a period of 3 months to 1 year. The duration and frequency of creative leave are determined by the Academic Council's decision or contract terms, depending on the leave's purposes and financial support possibilities;

7.2.5. Appropriate organizational and material-technical support for their professional activities;

7.2.6. Participate in discussing and resolving issues of educational, scientific, and other activities of the University;

7.2.7. Use premises and information funds, laboratories, offices, libraries, computing centers, educational and scientific institutions, social, cultural, and other units' services in the prescribed manner;

7.2.8. Appeal against orders and directives of the University administration in the manner established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

7.3. The scientific-pedagogical staff must:

7.3.1. Ensure the effectiveness of the educational and scientific processes and the students' assimilation of educational programs at the level of state educational standards;

7.3.2. Develop students' independence, initiative, creative abilities, instill high moral standards, form professional qualities, civic position, and the ability to live and work in modern civilization and democracy conditions;

7.3.3. Constantly improve their education and qualifications, conduct scientific research and other forms of creative work, actively involve students in them, comply with the norms of this Charter;

7.3.4. Ensure high effectiveness of the educational process and conducted scientific research;

7.3.5. Comply with the provisions of this Charter and the University's Code of Ethics, execute decisions of the University's governing bodies;

7.3.6. Preserve the University's property, take care of its book fund.

7.4. Training of scientific-pedagogical and scientific personnel is carried out in the following forms:

7.4.1. Doctoral studies, graduate school;

7.4.2. Transfer to scientific staff positions for preparing dissertations for the Doctor of Sciences degree;

7.4.3. Affiliation to the University for preparing and defending dissertations for the Candidate or Doctor of Sciences degree;

7.4.4. Creative leave for completing dissertation work.

7.5. Retraining and professional development of the University's scientific-pedagogical staff are carried out in the prescribed manner in the University's specialized units, as well as in training institutions for professional development and retraining of personnel.

7.6. University teachers can simultaneously perform additional duties as heads of departments, deans (their deputies), heads of departments, graduate school, practice, methodological units, etc., on a part-time basis.

7.7. All positions of the University's scientific-pedagogical staff are filled by employment contracts for up to 5 (five) years.

7.8. Heads of departments are elected by the University's Academic Council from among specialists with academic degrees and titles, by secret ballot, and appointed to the position by the rector's order for a term of up to 5 (five) years.

7.9. The University's vice-rectors are hired under a fixed-term employment contract in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

7.10. Before concluding a fixed-term employment contract, the appointment to the position precedes the vice-rectors' positions.

7.11. The vice-rectors for academic work are appointed by the rector.

7.12. Heads of the University's structural units are appointed from among specialists with academic degrees corresponding to the profile and qualifications on a contract-competitive basis in the manner established by this Charter.

7.13. Positions of administrative-economic, engineering-technical, educational-assisting, service, and other personnel are filled on a contractual (contract) basis.

7.14. The rights and obligations of administrative-economic and other personnel, as well as all categories of the University's employees, are determined by the labor legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, this Charter, and other local regulatory acts of the University.

7.15. Hiring and dismissing teachers and other University employees is carried out in accordance with the labor legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic or under the conditions provided by the contract.

1. UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

8.1. The exclusive competence of the Founder includes:

8.1.1. Determining the main directions of the University's activities;

8.1.2. Approving the University's Charter, as well as amendments and additions to it;

8.1.3. Considering issues related to the University's reorganization and liquidation;

8.2. The University's management is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and this Charter.

8.3. General management of the University is carried out by the following elective bodies:

8.3.1. In terms of academic, research, methodological work, staffing, and training of scientific-pedagogical personnel - the Academic Council;

8.3.2. In terms of making operational decisions in all areas of activity - the Rectorate Council.

8.4. The University's Academic Council is formed with the rector (Council chairman), vice-rectors, heads of structural units operating on full cost-accounting, deans of faculties, heads of profiling departments, heads of scientific-pedagogical and other units, representatives of trade union and student public organizations.

8.4.1. Representatives of faculties and other academic structural units from among leading scientists, professors, and associate professors elected in the prescribed manner by the council of the corresponding units.

8.5. The composition of the Academic Council is approved by the University's rector for a term of 2 (two) years.

8.6. If members of the Academic Council leave before the end of its term, the established number is replenished based on the rector's order.

8.7. The main functions and tasks of the University's Academic Council are:

8.7.1. Considering issues and making proposals for the creation, disbandment, enlargement, and division of faculties, departments, and other scientific and educational units;

8.7.2. Approving annual and long-term development plans of the University;

8.7.3. Hearing reports of the University's vice-rectors, heads of structural units, including those operating on full cost-accounting, on academic, educational-methodological, scientific, financial-economic, and educational activities, and taking measures to further improve them;

8.7.4. Considering issues of organizing and optimizing the educational process, introducing effective teaching technologies into the educational process;

8.7.5. Determining the main directions of scientific-research and methodological activities of the University, distributing financial and labor resources for their implementation;

8.7.6. Making decisions on evaluating the effectiveness and feasibility of developing the scientific-organizational activities of scientific and educational units;

8.7.7. Considering cases of presenting the University's scientific-pedagogical personnel for government awards.

8.8. The University's Academic Council meeting is held in accordance with the annual plan approved by the University's rector.

8.9. The University's rector and director have the right to change the dates and agenda of the Academic Council meeting.

8.10. The University's Academic Council meetings are valid if more than 50% of the council's total composition is present.

8.11. The Academic Council meetings are held at least once a month throughout the academic year.

8.12. An extraordinary Academic Council meeting may be convened:

8.12.1. By the decision of the University's rector (Chairman of the Academic Council);

8.12.2. At the request of 2/3 of the Academic Council members;

8.12.3. By the decision of the Rectorate Council.

8.13. By the decision of the University's Academic Council, part of its powers may be transferred to the Scientific

8.14. The Academic Council's decisions on competitions for filling positions of teaching and scientific staff, election of deans of faculties, heads of departments, and other educational-scientific units, and awarding academic titles are made by secret ballot by a simple majority in the prescribed manner.

8.15. The Academic Council's decisions on academic, scientific, educational, financial-economic, and other activities are made by open voting by a simple majority.

8.16. The Academic Council's decisions come into force after their approval by the University's rector.

8.17. The Academic Council meetings are recorded. The minutes are signed by the chairman and the academic secretary of the council.

8.18. The academic secretary of the Academic Council organizes systematic monitoring of the council's decisions and informs the rector and council members about the implementation of adopted decisions.

8.19. The university president directly manages the university's academic activities.

8.20. The director independently resolves all issues of the University's activities, except for the powers assigned to the exclusive competence of the University's Academic Council.

8.21. The director acts on behalf of the University without a power of attorney, represents its interests in relations with the state, state and other bodies, organizations, universities, regardless of the forms of ownership, legal entities, and citizens; disposes of the University's property and funds, opens settlement and other accounts in financial-credit universities; issues powers of attorney; concludes contracts, including employment, issues orders and directives, applies incentives, and imposes disciplinary sanctions.

8.22. In accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and this Charter, the rector and director within their competence:

8.22.1. Manage educational, scientific, production, economic, financial, international, and other activities of the University;

8.22.2. Approve the University's structure;

8.22.3. Approve the University's staffing schedule;

8.22.4. Form the University's personnel composition in accordance with this Charter;

8.22.5. Monitor the implementation of the University's Academic Council's decisions;

8.22.6. Propose the candidacy of the academic secretary of the University's Academic Council for approval by the Academic Council;

8.22.7. Suspend the decisions of the faculty's Academic Council and other structural units if they contradict the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic or this Charter;

8.22.8. Organize the work of the University and its structural units taking into account the decisions of the Academic Council and the Rectorate Council of the University;

8.22.9. Approve the regulations on the University's structural units, appoint, and remove heads of structural units;

8.22.10. Issue orders, give instructions within their competence, mandatory for all employees and students;

8.22.11. Approve local regulatory legal acts regulating the University's activities;

8.22.12. Perform other functions and powers provided by this Charter.

8.23. The University's rector is appointed by the Founder.

8.24. The University's director is appointed by the Founder.

8.25. The rector's powers may be terminated early in the following cases:

8.25.1. Voluntary resignation;

8.25.2. Recall by the Founder;

8.25.3. Inability to perform official duties due to illness or in the event of death;

8.25.4. Other grounds provided by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

8.26. In their activities, the rector is guided by the current legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, orders, and directives of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic and other ministries of the Kyrgyz Republic, and this Charter.

8.27. The Rectorate Council is a consultative-deliberative collegial body that considers issues of organizing and implementing academic, scientific, medical, financial-economic, and economic activities of the University. The Rectorate Council's activities are regulated by the Rectorate Council Regulations, approved by the rector.

8.28. The vice-rectors directly manage a specific type of the University's activities in accordance with the rector's orders and directives and their approved job descriptions.

1. FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

9.1. The University's sources of funding are:

9.1.1. Funds from the founder and own funds, including foreign currency, from educational, consulting, scientific-research, publishing, production-commercial, and other legal activities;

9.1.2. Loans from financial-credit institutions;

9.1.3. Funds donated by enterprises, organizations, public funds, individuals (including foreign ones);

9.1.4. Fees for contract training;

9.1.5. Fees for additional educational services (for conducting additional classes instead of missed ones for an unexcused reason, the difference - when transferring from another university and reinstatement, additional consultations, etc.), courses, accommodation fees in dormitories, and others;

9.1.6. Funds received under contracts with legal and physical entities for personnel training;

9.1.7. Other sources not contradicting the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

9.2. The University has the right, within the limits established by the state certification, to train specialists under relevant contracts with payment of tuition fees by individuals and (or) legal entities. The University independently resolves issues related to concluding contracts, defining obligations, and other conditions not contradicting the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and the University's Charter.

9.3. The amount of tuition fees for citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic is determined by the budget of expenses approved by the rector of the University for each financial year. The estimated cost of training includes expenses for conducting and providing information for the educational, educational-methodical, and scientific processes, current maintenance of the University, forming funds for salary payments, developing and maintaining the material-technical base, and material incentives for employees, and social support for students. The tuition fees may be adjusted in accordance with inflation rates during the academic year, but no more than once. The income received from this activity and the acquired property with these funds are at the disposal of the University and are used for purposes provided by this Charter.

9.4. The amounts of material incentives and material assistance for all categories of employees are independently determined by the University within the available funds. At the same time, state tariff rates and salaries are used as minimums. Additional payments and allowances to state rates and salaries are established with mandatory differentiation of employees' wages depending on their qualifications, complexity, and conditions of the work performed, and each employee's personal contribution to the University's activities results.

9.5. The University independently, in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and this Charter, disposes of special funds (special funds apply to state educational organizations), including foreign currency, received from its foreign economic activities.

9.6. The University's financial and material resources are not subject to seizure unless otherwise provided by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

9.7. The property, including buildings and structures of the University, is under its operational management and is not subject to seizure for non-educational purposes.

9.8. The University independently disposes of the property assigned to it.

9.9. For ensuring activities provided by this Charter, buildings, structures, property complexes, and other real estate objects (including land plots), equipment, and other necessary property for consumer, social, cultural, and other purposes are assigned to the University for operational management.

9.10. In accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, the University has the right to use its property for economic and other income-generating activities, including leasing part of the property without the right to purchase.

9.11. In accordance with the current legislation, the University has the right to carry out income-generating activities, including foreign economic activities, in the form of providing paid educational services, including paid higher education, and conducting scientific-technical and consulting activities on a paid basis.

9.12. The University independently develops its material-technical base within the funds received from training students on a contractual basis, as well as at the expense of its own funds and other legal sources.

1. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

10.1. The University has the right to participate in international cooperation in pre-university, higher, postgraduate, and continuous education, establish direct contacts and cooperate with foreign and international scientific, educational, and medical universities, other enterprises and organizations, implement interstate and international educational, scientific-research programs in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, to study and disseminate advanced experience.

10.2. Within the framework of international activities, the University has the right to:

10.2.1. Join international public (non-governmental) educational associations and organizations;

10.2.2. Conclude joint activity agreements with foreign partners that cannot be considered international agreements of the Kyrgyz Republic.

10.3. Training, retraining, and professional development of foreign citizens at the University beyond the quotas established by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic under relevant interstate agreements are carried out under direct contracts concluded by the University with foreign citizens and foreign legal entities.

10.4. Training of foreign citizens at the University under interstate agreements and direct contracts (contracts) can be carried out on a compensatory basis and at the expense of funds transferred to the University by these organizations, foreign universities of foreign countries, other organizations, or foreign citizens.

10.5. The University has the right, in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, to engage in foreign economic activities provided by this Charter and aimed at fulfilling the main tasks.

10.5.1. The University can offer programs outside the Kyrgyz Republic in collaboration with partner institutions or through online platforms, which are not subject to control by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, and issue its own private diplomas and degrees upon their completion. This can also serve as an additional source of income for the university.

10.6. All types of international activities are carried out based on agreements (unless otherwise provided by international agreements concluded by the Kyrgyz Republic with the relevant state) not contradicting the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

10.7. Foreign currency received by the University from foreign economic activities is spent in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

1. ACCOUNTING, CONTROL, AND REPORTING OF THE UNIVERSITY

11.1. The University conducts operational accounting of its activities' results and maintains statistical reporting in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

11.2. The forms and procedure for accounting and statistical reporting are established in accordance with the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

11.3. The financial-economic activities of the University are controlled and inspected by the Founder and other state bodies within their competence in the manner established by the current legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.

1. UNIVERSITY REORGANIZATION AND LIQUIDATION PROCEDURE

12.1. The University can be reorganized or liquidated by the Founder or by a court decision, in the manner provided by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic. Reorganization and liquidation of the University are carried out in the manner provided by civil legislation and the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic on state registration of legal entities, branches (representative offices) by the Founder's decision (participant).

12.2. The University is considered reorganized or liquidated from the moment the corresponding entry is made in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

1. AMENDMENT PROCEDURE

13-1. Amendments to this Charter are made in the manner provided by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic on non-profit organizations by the Founder's (participant's) decision.

1. FINAL PROVISIONS

14.1. This Charter comes into force upon its registration with the justice authorities of the Kyrgyz Republic.

14.2. The provisions of this Charter may be amended or supplemented based on the Founder's decision in the following cases: change of Founder, change of legal address, change of legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, change of subordination, and name.

14.3. If any provision of this Charter is or becomes invalid, it does not suspend the validity of the remaining provisions. The invalid provision must be replaced with a provision legally permissible or close in meaning to the replaced one.

14.4. Documents generated in the University's activities, in case of its reorganization or liquidation, are subject to storage in accordance with the Law "On the National Archival Fund of the Kyrgyz Republic".