Education System Management and Professional Competence of Managers

Nowadays Kazakhstan has made a breakthrough in the economy, being integrated into world civilization using progressive technologies. In this context the role and meaning of the modern system of education, human potential as criteria of social development has grown a lot. The main value of modern education is developing in a person the needs and possibilities to go beyond that has been learnt, abilities to self-realization of creative potential, directivity to self-development and self-education during whole life. This means that the center of education upbringing process is the personality with its interests, needs and possibilities. Practical realization of these priorities requires new professional competence from the teachers and new approaches in management organization of all education factors from the system of education management. The purpose of the paper is to analyze various approaches towards system of higher education management. The authors have made an attempt to formulate the functions, being realized by managers in education. The researchers have found out that in spite of general principles and management methods, management in education has a number of peculiar features from managing other types of institutions, enterprises and social organizations. The paper offers the model of education manager training. The problem of professional training of managers in education in the system of higher education is one of the most important resources of providing the efficiency of educational reforms in Kazakhstan. At the modern stage of many stage reform of Kazakhstan education qualified managers are necessary and their availability can become a fundamental factor of success of further transformations in the area of education.