By decree of the Head of State, 2025 has been declared the Year of Working Professions.

In order to increase the prestige of working professions and reform technical and vocational education, the Government approved the Republican Plan for the Year of Working Professions, and the Ministry adopted a Roadmap for the transformation of vocational education for 2025-2027.

The action plan includes 7 directions and 70 steps: an atlas of new professions and competencies, taking into account regional specifics, the transformation of technical and vocational education, the training of internationally certified specialists, job creation, protection of the rights and raising the status of working professions. Together with the enterprises, 1,000 specialized classes will be opened in schools.

"The career guidance reform will allow students to learn about new requirements in the labor market, assess career prospects in specific sectors of the economy, and make the right choice of profession. The career guidance service in schools will be strengthened, which will fully cover the professional diagnosis of students. The experience of teaching high school students practical skills and the first working profession at colleges will also be introduced," Kazakh Minister of Education Gani Beisembayev stressed.

Currently, there are 772 colleges in the vocational education system, which have more than half a million students. By the end of 2024, the volume of government orders in technical and vocational education increased by 143,000 places, and student scholarships doubled.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/edu/press/news/details/914263