Economic needs in spotlight of vocational education system - Minister Z. Tuimebayev

18:54, 4 June 2010

ALMATY. June 4. KAZINFORM /Yekaterina Ionova/ The system of vocational education in Kazakhstan has been reoriented on the demand of economy. Due to support of the International Organization of Labor, the European Educational Fund, the British Council and the World Bank we could change the content, improve material-technical base and establish guardian, regional and sectoral councils at the educational institutions. Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Zhansseit Tuimebayev has said it at the XIII plenary session of the Foreign Investors Council in Almaty today.

According to him, KZT 52 bln were spent for renewal of material base of 30% of the country's technical and vocational education institutions. KZT 280 mln of this sum were provided by foreign investors, he added.

Together with the Ministry of Labor the Ministry of Education works on development of professional standards. "To date we have already developed standards on extraction and drilling in oil and gas sector and in tourism", Z. Tuimebayev said.

The Minister also focused on the issues concerning personnel training for implementation of the program of forced industrial-innovative development. "The total demand of economy in highly qualified personnel makes 287 thousand people. 108 thousand of them must pass training courses within the Industrialization program. Noteworthy to say, that this program requires only 15% of people with higher education. It needs primarily the workers with technical and vocational education (55%) and workers with simple professions (30%)", he said.

"We face many challenges today which must be solved together", the Minister considers. "We must develop the network of technical and vocational education institutions and create institutional bases of human resources management", Tuimebayev concluded.

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