today kazakhstan continues to embark on profound reforms to improve the quality of the education system and is increasingly looking at international standards and best practices the sped further develops previously adopted strategies such as the state program for education development for the state program for technical and vocational education development for the children of kazakhstan program for and the balapan preprimary education program for other relevant challenges identified in other education levels relevant for schooling include the little access to preprimary education the mismatch between education supply and employers demand for qualified vocational and higher education graduates the lack of a national qualifications system and the disconnect between the content of school education and the content of higher education this overall goal has been operationalised in directions and targets