20.02.2025 on conducting the expert strategy session

On February 20, 2025, NJC «al-Farabi Kazakh National University» will hold an Expert strategic session on «Quality assurance of educational programmes: academic approaches and innovative solutions».

The session is an annual platform for the exchange of ideas and best practices on the integration of education, science and business.

The main purpose of the Expert Session – improving the quality of educational programs through the assessment of their effectiveness and the introduction of innovative design approaches in the context of the harmonization of the labor market and education.

The task – to develop practical recommendations and approaches to the design of educational programs through the experience exchange and discussion of innovative solutions based on the labor market requirements with experts and young scientists.

The Expert session will be attended by representatives of the Committee for Higher and Postgraduate Education and the National Center for Higher Education Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Ministry of Science and Higher Education, experts in the field of developing educational programs at universities in Kazakhstan, employers, and young scientists.

Panel expert sessions:

1. Designing a portfolio of university educational programs for anticipatory staff training. 
2. «Мамандығым-болашағым» – preventive staff training project.
3. Inclusive-oriented teacher training: current state and prospects.  
4. Dual education: goals, objectives, problems and ways to solve them. 
5. AI in higher education. 
6. Micro-credentials: new ways of higher education transformation in Kazakhstan.

Expected results

• Develop recommendations for creating a flexible portfolio of educational programs based on forecasting the needs of the labor market and integrating interdisciplinary approaches.

• Develop mechanisms for updating educational trajectories in consideration of future professions and their effectiveness criteria. 

• Propose methodological recommendations for the implementation of the inclusive education model in higher and postgraduate education institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

• Design a roadmap for strengthening the interaction between higher and postgraduate education institutions and employers, and propose solutions to eliminate infrastructure barriers to dual education.  

• Identify priority areas for the application of GenAI to improve the quality of education, including the implementation of adaptive courses, platforms, and personalized learning pathways.

• Apply new standards for the integration of micro-credentials into educational programs and mechanisms for their recognition by employers.  

Expert strategic session venue: al-Farabi Kazakh National University (al-Farabi Library). 

Start of the plenary session: February 20, 2025, at 10:00 AM

Start of the panel sessions: February 20, 2025, at 2:00 PM.

Working languages of the conference: Kazakh, Russian, English.