Technical skills: through learning and practice?

Abstract

Implementation of the State Programme of Industrial and Innovative Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan is impossible without a developed system of professional education, which targets to train specialists in order to meet the real needs of the labor market. Accordingly, the employment of graduates of colleges and universities (and, first and foremost, in the area of their specialty), the level of their wages and their subsequent career are the most important effectiveness indicators of a system of technical and vocational, and higher education. For many jobs in today’s labor market, technical and vocational education is more appropriate and rational than higher education. At the same time, many jobs are becoming technically more complicated, information-rich and require applicants to have effective combination of practical skills and theoretical knowledge. Accordingly, in terms of developing students’ competences and skills, we observe the increase of the convergence of systems of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education.