Abstract
After signing the Bologna Declaration, Kazakhstan has committed itself to reform the higher educational system. The authors draw an analogy with the system of higher education in the Soviet time, demonstrate and analyze the strategy for the reform of education in Kazakhstan. Considering the performance and results of a fundamental restructuring of education, the authors rely on statistical information, think critically about the main vectors of educational trajectories, identify problems and suggest solutions. According to the authors, the Kazakhstan system of education can get a new level using the best practices of the previous system, and at the same time continuing to introduce innovative principles of the Bologna Declaration. Keywords: Higher education, Kazakhstan, the Bologna process, the labor market, competence, teacher.