By the decree of the Head of State, 2025 was declared the Year of Workers' Professions. In order to increase the prestige of working professions and reform of technical and vocational education, the Government approved the Republican Plan for the Year of Working Professions, and the Ministry also adopted a Roadmap for the transformation of technical and vocational education for 2025-2027.

The action plans include: Atlas of new professions and competencies taking into account regional characteristics, transformation of technical and vocational education, training of certified specialists of international level, job creation, protection of rights and improvement of the status of working professions. Together with enterprises, 1000 specialized classes will open in schools.


"The reform of career guidance will allow schoolchildren 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 vocational guidance service in schools will be strengthened, which will fully cover the professional diagnostics of students. And also the experience of teaching high school students practical skills and the first working profession on the basis of colleges has been introduced, "said Minister of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan Gani Beisembaev.

"The reform of career guidance will allow schoolchildren 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 vocational guidance service in schools will be strengthened, which will fully cover the professional diagnostics of students. And also the experience of teaching high school students practical skills and the first working profession on the basis of colleges has been introduced, "said Minister of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan Gani Beisembaev.

The state has adopted a new standard for per capita funding for colleges. The average amount of funds allocated for the training of one student is 437 thousand tenge, and from the new academic year for colleges that have achieved specific indicators will increase by more than 2 times and amount to 912 thousand tenge on average.

"Training of competitive specialists, full provision of educational institutions with modern material and technical equipment, advanced training of teachers is the main priority for us," the minister said.

It is planned to actively attract business structures and investors to develop a system of dual training and training of specialists based on the targeted order of enterprises.

Currently, 518 enterprises provide patronage over colleges, their number is planned to be increased to 4 thousand. Taking into account the requirements of professional standards, GOSO and WorldSkills standards, about 8 thousand educational programs have been developed. This year, colleges and their employers are developing more than 2 thousand educators.

"The center will contribute to the development of professional competencies and skills of students, and will also become the basis for retraining personnel, improving their qualifications, holding WorldSkills championships," said Gani Beisembaev.

One of the key events of the Year of Workers' Professions will be the holding of the first professional skills championship among Turkic-speaking countries Turkicskills - 2025 in the city of Aktau.