Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 15 (4): 511-515, 2013 ISSN 1990-9233 © IDOSI Publications, 2013 DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.15.4.11184 Corresponding Author: Khudiyeva, Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraighyrov, Lomova Street, 64, 140008 Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. 511 Self-Managed Learning in the Context of Higher Education System Sustainable Development in Kazakhstan Sevda Ramizovna Khudiyeva Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraighyrov, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan Abstract: The Republic of Kazakhstan has inherited from the USSR a hierarchical and strictly regulated higher education system. In the past two decades there has been significant reform intended to meet the needs of a modern competitive economy and offer degrees which are comparable with those offered within the Anglo-American systems. In 2010 the Republic of Kazakhstan became a signatory to the Bologna Process. In the present paper the progress of the Kazakh higher education system in modernizing has been reviewed. The principal contention of this paper is that progress in structural reform has been significant which must now be matched by changes in the learning experience to ensure sustainability. These changes require a change in the higher education content. Key words: Kazakhstan Management in Higher Education Bologna Process INTRODUCTION economy, the necessity in the greater investments and In the Address by the President of the Republic of a lot of ecological problems unsolved, etc. are the Kazakhstan - the Leader of the Nation Nursultan A. disadvantage. It is certainly possible to live using the Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan “Strategy natural resources, but they are diminishing. Besides, the “Kazakhstan-2050”: New Political Course of the incomes from their export are unstable and also have the Established State” dated 14.12.2012 the task of an tendency to decrease. Therefore, only the integration into independent state is determined - saving achieved for the the global scientific technical community will bring the years of independence, to continue the sustainable clarity of the perspective for Kazakhstan – this means the development in the 21 century [1, 3]. One of the primary transition to the innovative way of development. These st state goals is creating a modern and efficient system of are innovations that facilitate moving the resources into education [1, 14]. the sphere of a higher productivity, profitability and Below in the Address the necessity to change the gaining wide niche in the global market. This model mentality of Kazakhstani society is emphasized [1, 19]. contains a still new variable for us, which is the human Kazakhstan became the 47th signatory to the capital; it represents the contemporary level and capacity Bologna Process in March 2010 and is the first of the scientific knowledge [3, 125]. Central Asian State – the Bologna Process participant, a full member of the European Higher Soviet Heritage of Kazakhstan: According to Marx, Education area [2]. “Men [and women] make their own history, but they do The Republic of Kazakhstan is an agrarian not make it as they please; they do not make it under industrial state where the mining industry is of the self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances priority development. The State possesses the existing already, given and transmitted from the past. features of the developed and developing countries The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an Alp as well. The universal literacy, broad network of on the brains of the living” [4]. educational and scientific researching establishments, Kazakhstan is a country the size of Western Europe, formed fuel and energy complex, nuclear and space with a population of over 15 million. This population is research are the advantage. The raw orientation of the quite well educated, a positive legacy from the former import of new technologies, the infrastructure backlog,