Today we discuss with the head of strategic development department of A. Baitursynov KSU F.F.Mayer, who was the part of working group of MES RK and took part in development and improvement of normative documents in education from January 5 to January 6.

       - Fedor Fedorovich, this is not the first time, when you participate in such work. In which development of Regulations did you participate earlier? And what did you do this time?

      - Actually, the Department of higher and postgraduate education of MES RK constantly involves me to the development of various documentation on the educational activity. So, for example, I am one of developers of the existing Rules of organization of educational process on the education credit technology and the State obligatory standards of the higher and postgraduate education.The most important in these documents I introduced the new generalized concepts of credit and academic hour, which allowed resulting in all calculations into consistent system, connected with the study load of students, master students, PhD students and academic teaching staff according to the labour intensity of the credit for the different types of study work. Also the recalculation mechanisms of ECTS credits for all types of study work in Kazakhstani credits and back were given.

The working group,consisted of the representative of five leading higher education institutions of the country, made the Rules of placement of the state educational order for the training of specialists with the higher and postgraduate education, and also on the preparatory divisions of higher educational institutions.

     - Can you tell which innovations wait us?

     - The best innovations in this situation are its absence. We have such situation.

     The main approaches on placement of the state educational order for training of specialists are stated above in the document, specified by me. The decision about competition on the defining of higher education institutions for placement of the state educational order for personnel training and competitive documentation are announced by separate orders of MES RK on the eve of the beginning of documents acceptance of entrants. Here the form of the Information card was applied, which the higher education institutions in the shortest terms had to fill for each specialty. It is large volume of work!

     And now the form of the Information card will be approved by those Rules of placement of the state educational order for training of specialists with the higher and postgraduate education, which we processed, and this form will be known to all higher education institutions in advance. For this reason now the higher education institutions will be able to fill in advance quietly these Information cards, without waiting of releasing of the MES RK order about Competition on placement of the state educational order for personnel training with the higher and postgraduate education.

      - Fedor Fedorovich, probably,did you make other documents during these two days?

     - Yes,of course, the methodology of application of key indicators of activity efficiency (KPІ) was developed by the working group for the assessment of activity of the top management of higher education institutions of the country and pilot variant of indicators of KPІ, its criteria, weight and a technique of calculations.

     - Thank you for interview.