Abstract
This article discusses an important for education topic of the application of programs and standards of effective education in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It also analyzes the current state of the education sector and the main policy documents in the education sector that regulate its effectiveness. The article reveals the problems of Kazakh higher education, such as the oversaturation of the market with educational institutions (universities), the expensive cost of education, and the lack of technical specialists. The State Program for the Development of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2019–2025 adopted in 2019 is substantiated as the idea of one of the possible ways to eliminate defects and gaps in education. Summarizing practical experience, the article examines the key stages of changing the state of the education system and its modernization. The improvement of entrance exams to leading universities of our country as a part of increasing the competence of specialists is being considered. In order to saturate production and enterprises of labor-deficient regions with personnel the implementation of the social project “Mangilik El Zhastary Industryaga” continues. This implies providing jobs for university graduates, including in rural areas, taking into account the needs of the labor market. In conclusion, all possible ways of improving the education system are examined, which are reflected as the planned changes in the State program and should have a beneficial effect on the system of higher and postgraduate education in the republic and increase its prestige in the eyes of potential applicants.