The National Chamber of Entrepreneurs "Atameken" and the Ministry of Education and Science evaluated 66 educational programs on the specialty "Information Systems" of the bachelor's degree in higher education institutions of Kazakhstan.

According to the results of the inspection, the rating of universities was compiled. The results of the audit are follows: Kazakhstan-British Technical University, International University of Information Technologies, D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan State Technical University were included in the top five universities, Kazakh-German University, Narhoz University.

Representatives of Atameken also noted that the first stage was analysing  the average wage and the percentage of employment of graduates in 2016 for the evaluated educational programs. At the second stage, assessment and analysis of the content gap of educational programs was carried out with the involvement of experts from the leading IT companies of the republic.

As a result of the assessment, experts noted that in educational programs for training specialists there are unnecessary subjects for studying, taking up time from students, there are facts of applying in teaching outdated programming languages.

Press service of D. Serikbayev EKSTU