Public funding for vocational education in Kazakhstan increased twofold for 3 years

14:35, 16 May 2014

ASTANA. KAZINFORM The volume of financing of technical and vocational education in Kazakhstan has doubled over the past three years, Minister of Education and Science Aslan Sarinzhipov said at parliamentary hearings on the issues of staff training at Kazakhstan's universities and colleges.

"Just over the past three years public funding for technical and vocational education increased almost twice. In 2010 there was allocated 52.9 billion tenge, and in 2013 - 91 billion tenge. In addition, funding for equipping workshops in colleges was increase six times from 896 million tenge in 2010 to 5.5 billion in 2013. There is implemented a dual system. Modern institutions and the new management model are created. As a result, employment of graduates in their specialties increased by 10 %," Sarinzhipov said.

According to him, funding for higher education increased by 20% over the two years (in 2011 - 89.1 billion tenge, in 2013 - 106.5 billion tenge). In 2013 nine Kazakh universities were included in the group of 701+ (QS World University Rankings), the primeminister.kz said.

According to the ministry, today 1.86 million people study at 130 universities and 849 colleges in Kazakhstan. About 300 thousand graduates appear annually in the labor market.

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