Introduction
Education as a system - a unique social institution designed to develop the abilities of the individual; socially important ideals, fashions the future of society, to meet the needs of people in education throughout life (continuing education), as well as to meet society's need for social adaptation of young people to use their skills for economic development.
President, NA Nazarbayev to the strategic directions of development of the republic in the coming decade include education and science, the development of which crucially depend on the pace of economic, technical and technological progress, political development, the state of culture and spirituality in society.
During the years of reforms undertaken bold steps to introduce innovations. So, with the adoption in June 1999. Law "On education" has a new model of the national education system, corresponding to the International Standard Classification of Education, recommended by UNESCO. In accordance with it, based on the principle of continuity and has 4 levels of education:
- Pre-school education and training.
- Secondary education.
- Higher Education.
- Post-graduate education.
In this model, there is no such levels, as vocational and secondary education. Training and retraining of personnel, it also is not education levels, and are considered as basic forms of additional professional education.
The education system WSO in the last 10 years has undergone significant changes. In the late 90's have been reducing the share of the actual level of funding, the closing (the "optimization"), a number of educational institutions, the crisis in the system as a whole. Currently, the system of education has entered a period of stabilization, which is characterized by extensive development of innovative processes in the content, organization and management of education that brought some positive results.
Modern trends of development of Kazakhstan created