Existing links between the leather engineering department at Ege University in Turkey and the Auezov University in Kazakhstan became firmer at the end of 2021 and the start of this year when Ege's professor Eser Eke Bayramoglu travelled east to teach and carry out technical research in Auezov's product technology and design departments. In total, Dr Bayramoglu spent a month there, teaching undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and spending time with Auezov academics to help them prepare to put new impetus into their own leather teaching. She also ran a masterclass in which the Kazakh students made leather bags. She says her visit to the university, which is in the city of Shymkent in the south of Kazakhstan, made her optimistic about the future of leather education in that part of the world.
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