The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Higher Education in Kazakhstan Challenges and solutions Vice-Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aidar Zhakupov March 2010

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan The Republic of Kazakhstan joined the European Cultural Convention on 5 March 2010 Kazakhstan joined the Bologna Declaration at the II Bologna Ministerial Forum on 11 March 2010 in Budapest (Hungary)

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan National priorities in the development of higher and postgraduate education: National priorities in the development of higher and postgraduate education: 1. High quality development of the three-cycle model of specialists’ training; 2. Organization of the academic process of the universities on the basis of credit technology; 3. Development of the Kazakhstani credit transfer system in line with the ECTS; 4. Development of academic mobility; 5. Development of the system of education quality assurance – specialized and institutional accreditation; 6. Introduction of principles of the corporate management at the higher educational institutions; 7. Active participation of the Kazakhstani higher educational institutions in various national and international ratings.

4 The Index of Development of the Education for All (IDE) ‏ On data of the World Report of UNESCO on Education for All monitoring for 2009 «Overcoming an inequality: Important role of management»

KAZAKHSTAN IN THE WORLD EDUCATIONAL SPACE For the first time in the history in 2009 Kazakhstan entered the List of countries with the high level of the Human Development Index (UNDP Report, 2009 «Overcoming the barrier: humans mobility and development»)‏ Very high level of IHD High level of IHD Middle level of IHD Kyrgyzstan China Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Ukraine Kazakhstan Turkey Russia Belarus MalaysiaGermany USAFrance Australia Norway

Global Index of competitive ability, 2009 (GIC)‏ Global Index of competitive ability, 2009 (GIC)‏ According to 7 educative measures of GIC Kazakhstan amended its position in the rating Improvement - stability Quality of elementary education Quality of the System of Education Domestic access of specialized scientific pedagogical personnel Personnel trainings Availability of scientists a nd engineers Expenses for education Coverage with a secondary education Quality of Mathematic and Scientific Education Quality of management in schools Ability to innovations

Forms of property of higher educational institutions 14 5 higher educational institutions state higher educational institutions of special status (national) – 9 state state higher educational institutions – 33non-civilian higher educational institutions – 13 – 13 private higher educational institutions – 90

Number of students – 422,5 (per 10,000 population) Number of professors – CURRENT STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Undergraduate students – study on the state scholarship basis study on the tuition paid basis –

Expenditures on education as a % of GDP Total as a % of GDP

The National Education Quality Assessment System National Education Quality Assessment Center Republican Scientific- Methodological Center for Vocational and Technical Education Development and Qualification Awards Republican Scientific- Methodological Center for Vocational and Technical Education Development and Qualification Awards NATIONAL TESTING CENTER ‏ Infrastructure of National Education Quality Assessment System (NEQAS) ‏ National Accreditation Center National Accreditation Center

The National Reports

On 1 January 2010 Quantity of universities, realizing a two-diploma educational programs 37 Quantity of universities, teaching under credit technology 132 Quantity of universities, realizing distance learning programs 20 Quantity of universities that signed the Magna Charta Unviersitatum (Bologna Process) 30 Quantity of universities that passed the International accreditation 6 Higher Education

Nazarbayev’s University Signed the Agreement with the University College London (UCL) on opening of the preparatory school of the Nazarbayev’s University Concluded Memorandums with the Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh

Academical mobility of Kazakhstanis study abroad on their own expenses More than of Kazakhstanis study abroad on their own expenses STUDYING foreign students from 45 countries of the world study in the Republic of Kazakhstan ChinaUSA RussiaPakistan TurkeyGermany IndiaCuba PolandUzbekistan SyriaTadjikistan MongoliaTurkmenistan IraqSouth Korea, and etc Kazakhstanis study in 27 countries of the world under the Bolashak International Program Harvard University Yale University Cambridge University Oxford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Imperial College London University College London Chicago University Columbian University California Institute of Technology, and etc. USA Great Britain Australia Germany China Canada Switzerland Japan France Sweden and etc. Netherlands Malasia

Economy and management 11,3% Social science 11,3% Art 3,4% Medicine 16% Agriculture and agrotechnology 5% Engineering sciences (space sciences, the petrochemical industry) ‏ 37% Exact and natural sciences (biotechnology, nano-technology, chemistry) - 16% Priority specialities The Bolashak International Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

200 annual grants are awarded at the expense of the republican budget for research and professional development abroad USD worth grant awarded on a competitive basis data on 253 best professors is available on the web-site of the Ministry SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

The following types of accreditation have been developed in the Republic of Kazakhstan: - Institutional accreditation - Specialized accreditation 9 higher educational institutions have passed the national institutional accreditation The national model of accreditation has been developed

The number of elective disciplines has been increased in order to expand the academic freedom of the higher educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The HEIs have a right to choose 60-70% of content of the educational programs The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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