Higher education in Kazakhstan: current situation and problems
In the article presents data for the analysis of quantitative and qualitative composition of universities in Kazakh-stan, for comparison with the leading countries of the world in education Great Britain, Finland, Czech Republic, Canada, as well as other countries in East Asia, Europe, Russia and the West. A survey of monitoring information on the skills needs of the labor force and available jobs in Kazakhstan. The advantages and disadvantages of public and private higher education systems are set. Research is an integral component of the curriculum, the number of researchers in the academic sector has declined sharply. Significant changes have occurred in the distribution of the total performed research and development work in educational institutions and science. The sources of funding of science in Kazakhstan. An important area of higher education are issues of international cooperation, whose main task - the integration of the education system of Kazakhstan into the world educational space. In higher education, a lot of problem situations, among them - the ubiquitous problem of underfunding, low pay "brain drain", etc.