2017 2nd International Conference on Education and Development (ICED 2017) ISBN: 978-1-60595-487-5 The Content of Professional Training of Future Informatics Specialists in Kazakhstan: Process of Developing Educational Program Almagul ASSAINOVA 1,a,* , Janar ALIMOVA 2,b , Aigul DAUTOVA 3,c , Nazira OSPANOVA 4,d and Gulmira ABILDINOVA 5,e 1 S.Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Lomov str., 64, +77072158721 2 S.Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Lomov str., 64, +77478452539 3 S.Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Lomov str., 64, +77016123931 4 S.Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Lomov str., 64, +77011664573 5 L. Gumilev Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan, Astana, Satpaev str., 2, +77753340708 a asal_fr@mail.ru, b jarasovajanar@mail.ru, c aigul67_03@mail.ru, d nazira_n@mail.ru,  gulmira_2181@mail.ru *Corresponding author Keywords: Professional Training, Informatics Specialty, Informatics Curriculum, Informatics Education. Abstract. The article focuses on the training of future informatics specialists in higher education system of Kazakhstan. The prelude to the change in the educational program, analysis of Competence was described, Competence was analyzed and the competence-based model of the informatics specialist was built for Kazakhstan. An educational program has been developed on the basis of this model that includes requirements not only of normative documents, but also of other customers (employers, IT professionals). The development of industry in Kazakhstan gave rise to the inclusion of the industrial and engineering areas into the program, that will allow students in the future to access employment in the industrial sector of the economy of Kazakhstan. Introduction Now that the world is becoming more digitized and technologically advanced, the profession of IT specialist remains more demanded than ever. Constantly developing ICT require the necessity for innovation in education to meet the demands of ICT in the 21st century. Universities should clearly identify the IT skills that companies require from IT specialists, because ICT graduates need a strong support of technical competence, both in engineering and in the area of informatics, as well as in a wide systems perspective. The most common educational program on the informatics model is Computer Science Curricula [1], developed through the combined efforts of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society. It is worth noting that this document is primarily focused on the US, and is based on the knowledge and perspectives of the late 90s, early 2000s, and much has changed in the field of IT. Increased interest was seen in mobile and web applications, e-business systems, ERP systems, wireless communication systems, social networks and Web 2.0 [2]. In Kazakhstan, at the moment, the information society is booming: web services have been developed, such as e-government (http://egov.kz), the number of users of mobile applications, mobile banking, Internet of things are increasing. Therefore, these issues should be reflected in the training program for IT specialists. There is yet another particular feature in the training of informatics specialists in Kazakhstan. North Kazakhstan is a large industrial region in Asia, where the oil refining, gas industry, processing of non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy is concentrated. The industrial sector imposes its requirements to the informatics specialist, thus forming a social request, in which the specialist must possess a 61