HIGHER EDUCATION IN KAZAKHSTAN: GLOBAL TRENDS AND STATE POLICY

Abstract

Modern global trends in socio-economic processes, manifested in the progress of the "economy of knowledge, technology and information", have put on the agenda the issues of professional and personal growth and the need for investment in "human capital". Globalization and internationalization of education mean the gradual transformation of national educational systems into a global one while maintaining differences due to tradition and culture. This article analyzes the fundamental objectives of the state policy of reforming higher education in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the scope of global tendencies in education.

The object of the study is the system of Higher Education of Kazakhstan. The authors set the task to define the quality of conformance of Higher Education of Kazakhstan with such global trends in the field of university education as internationalization, digitalization and “education through life". To this end, official documents of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, analytical reports, statistical materials, as well as foreign and domestic studies on the problem were studied. Comparative and system-functional research methods have revealed the efficiency of the implementation of the core global trends in education in the state policy of reforming university education.

Keywords: higher education, Kazakhstan, state policy, global trends, digitalization, long-life learning.