Abstract
The issues of improving the university and postgraduate training of specialists in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of a competence approach have become an obvious factor in the globalization of the world educational system. According to the evolution of the competence education development, there are three basic approaches to assessing the quality of learning outcomes based on the concept of competencies: the behavioral approach in the US; functional approach in the UK; multidimensional and holistic approaches in France and Germany. This research is carried out within the framework of the grant project: Developing and implementing innovative competence-based model of multilingual IT specialist in the course of national education system modernization. The aim of the study is to consider issues and problems of developing a competence approach in European practice, as well as an analysis of the European competence model of the IT-specialist in particular.