Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Strategic Development
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Professor, Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan
She graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Tselinograd State Pedagogical Institute named after S. Seifullin. She completed her scientific school at the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages named after M. Thorez. She began her teaching career at Akmola University as a senior lecturer, Associate Professor, the Head of the translation department. From 1995 to 2000 she was the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Eurasian University named after L.N. Gumilyov. Zagatova S.B. is the author of more than 100 scientific publications on the problems of Romance philology, linguodidactics, theory and practice of translation. She is the Winner of the state grant “Best University Teacher”.
From 2001 to the present, she has been working at the A.K. Kussayinov Eurasian Humanities Institute as: Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages, Dean, Director of the department of academic affairs and accreditation, Vice-Rector for academic work and strategic development.
Zagatova S.B. coordinates academic activities, modernization and improvement of educational programs, development and implementation of the long-term development strategy of the Institute, supervises the procedures for licensing of the educational programs, institutional and educational accreditation of the Institute.
For fruitful scientific and pedagogical work, Zagatova S.B. was awarded the badges of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Excellent Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, “Y. Altynsarin”, “Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, the jubilee medal “10 years of the Constitution of Kazakhstan” and the gold medal named after A. Baitursynov of the Association of Higher Education Institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan.