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From September, 2009 till April, 2010 high schools RK in a direction of "IT-technology" carried outthe following work:

1. The Order of the master programs coordination was developed; each university has prepared master training programs, adhering to a principle « One university - one program ». The package of documents on master training programs included: the summary of the program, the brief course summary in Russian, the curriculum, themes master's thesis. Priority courses in each high school have been formed and complete teaching sets are developed.
2. The general masters training requirements (the unified form of representation and maintenance of teaching set, uniform requirements to class periods and credits, system and the form of a thesis defense, the order of a thesis guidance, forms of uniform system of students knowledge assessment and the general assessing criteria, rules of transfer on магистерскуюthe program, rules of transfer on separate rates of the program, minimal language proficiency requirements) have been coordinated.
3. The report of coordination master training programs results in Information Technologies at a national level within the limits of USHOS has been signed.
4. At the meeting of representatives of head SHOS universities (on 26-27th October , 2009 in Moscow) the following moments have been coordinated and reflected in the report signed by all members of expert groups:
   • Masters training programs of head SHOS universities and priority courses of each specialty in Information Technologies have been coordinated (see table 1);
   • All courses specified in curricula of USHOS are opened for training students;
   • The diploma should be given by the university which the student has entered ( the same high school the student should take specialty course, practice and to defend the dissertation);
   • The two diplomas-program can be realized in one direction;
   • the scheme of bilaterial arrangements about training in separate courses(2-4)  has been coordinated to fulfill in other universities-partners in 2010-2012;
   • The work team  on Information Technologies has suggested to develop the general base course  “Modern problems and directions of ICT development” till December, 2011;
   • Labour input of discipline (as a rule, 130-180 hours) is estimated by total hours allocated on it (including contact and out-of-class). The number of credits is defined by the national requirements depending on labour input of a discipline;
   • 100-point system appraisement and 4-point matching system (table 2); only students who have not less than 60 points in one discipline can go on an exchange to university-partners USHOS;
   • The credits are taken into account  on the ground of comparison of course labour inputs. 
   • An opportunity of a joint thesis guidance (thus a master has the research supervisor from the university which confers the diploma and the supervisor from university-partner, or two research supervisors from university-partners USHOS);
   • Rules of  enrolment on separate masters courses programs of universities-partners have been coordinated (training language proficiency; progress on each discipline should be not below 60 points; conformity equivalence of thesis subject areas to a declared course).

1. Withi November-December, 2009 and in January, 2010 USHOS organizers studied all offers and remarks of expert groups work on the results of meeting on October, 26-28th and adopted the new form of the masters programs specification. By the end of February, 2010 EKSTU, KEU and КBTU have developed the  masters program specifications and presented them at the USHOS portal.
2. On meeting in Almaty coordinators from four RK universities presented masters programs and coordination work results.
3. Inspection of a university information-technological base condition was conducted. All universities are well equipped with information-communication technologies.
4. Organizational meetings on USHOS students training in Information Technologies have been held. The questions on development of a methodical part of the program, organizational questions, forms of students support(academic, social), masters accommodation have been discussed, etc.
5. Masters programs specifications of universities-partners of the Russian Federation, the Kirghiz Republic, and also the Agreements on joint masters training for 2010-2012, as the pilot program are successfully considered at present.
6. Organizational works on semester matching for realization of masters exchange are being conducted. The detailed schedule and procedure of educational monitoring are being accomplished.

   Priority Undergraduate training courses in Information Technologies