QUESTIONS OF INCREASING COMPETITIVENESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
The meeting was attended by representatives of educational and methodical associations of universities of the country from different regions of Kazakhstan, teachers, doctoral students and experts in the field of higher education.
The meeting was opened by the Vice-rector for Academic Affairs KazNU. Al-Farabi Askar Hikmetov, voicing the main issues on the agenda, including: the development and coordination of educational programs, taking into account changes in the structure of the RUMS, issues of financing the services of international experts in evaluating programs, the ratio of state standards and learning outcomes, as well as teaching staff qualifications.
“On the activities of UMO ROMS in the format of a project office” was reported by Marina Skiba, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Narkhoz University. The speaker emphasized the need to consolidate efforts to carry out a large volume of tasks facing associations, starting with creating and maintaining a special page (portal) on the university’s website to exchange offers and recommendations, ending with monitoring textbooks and updating the content of educational programs. Then a discussion and discussion of the issues of assigning the stamp of UMO ROMS to manuscripts of educational publications took place.
The second part of the meeting was devoted to improving the competitiveness of the higher education system at the level of countries and universities, in which the Vice-Rector of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Mukhambetkali Burkitbaev, Head of the Laboratory of Scientometry of the Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin Mark Akoev and international expert in the field of education, Director of E-kvadrat Consulting & Media GmbH Egor Yablokov.
Welcoming speech was delivered by the First Vice-Rector of KazNU named after al-Farabi Mukhambetkali Burkitbaev. Stressing the need for a state support program for universities, the speaker noted: “We all know that one of the models of socio-economic development around the world is the triple helix model, according to which there is an active interaction between the state, the university and business.At the same time, we must understand that a world-class university is involved in this model. But in order to create a research university of this level, a development program with state support is needed. Only in such universities do innovations appear, such universities integrate science and production ”.
Speakers' speeches were devoted to programs to increase competitiveness at the level of countries and individual universities and the formation of a target model for the development of universities.
