Аңдатпа
he authors study the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Bologna Declaration and the formation of the 4+2+3 system in the field of higher education after the accession process. In addition, this work provides a comparative analysis of academic mobility and the educational system in the European space and in Kazakhstan. Higher vocational education and its advantages and disadvantages for the countries of the Bologna system are also considered. The authors also identify national changes and similarities in the education system through the prism of the entry of universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan into the European educational space. The article reveals the shortcomings and changes of the Bologna system in terms of its importance to the republican education system. The authors conduct a comparative analysis of post-Soviet countries according to their transition to the modern European educational space. The article also studies the issue of students and teachers leaving the state to gain experience in the development of science space and exemplary universities in European countries. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the position and the role of the Bologna system that has spread from European countries to Kazakhstan, while the relevance lies in its implementation experience and prospects in the present time. It is well known that the current educational system of the European Union plays a dominant role in European countries, as well as in Central Asian and post-Soviet countries. In the study, the authors aim to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of European education through a SWOT analysis.