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НАУЧНО-ПРАКТИЧЕСКАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ «30-ЛЕТИЕ НЕЗАВИСИМОСТИ КАЗАХСТАНА
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ДОСТИЖЕНИЯ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ» own sport facilities. Teaching staff, on the other hand, is interested in smaller groups where it is possible to provide individual tasks and pay more attention to students in order to provide educational services of the higher quality and this is something that students and their parents expect from HEIs, but this leads to decrease of the profit. It should be noticed that education fee in Kazakhstan today is relatively more expensive than in European countries. According to UNESCO almost 80 thousand of Kazakhstani people were studying abroad because it was cheaper. [4] Challenge number four might be observed in the context of Hofstede’s cultural dimension model. According to this model Kazakhstan has a low score on individualism and high scores on both power distance and uncertainty avoidance indexes. This means the following: 1) school graduates choose major according to the preferences of parents or following the advice from elderly relatives; 2) school graduates choose major with low entrance score because it is more important to save family budget in the short-run; 3) school graduates focus more on passing the entrance test rather than on critical thinking, analytical and soft-skills. No surprise that students in the 1 st year are unable to make logical conclusions, have poor skills both in foreign languages and IT and are physically weak. In order to overcome this challenge the whole school program should be revised. School attendants must be open-minded, know how to argue, be flexible and innovative. Unfortunately, the majority of them say that our education today tests their memory, not the intelligence. When it comes to university newcomers have difficulties with making choices of both subjects and teachers which is a reflection high power distance index. Even though all Kazakhstani HEIs have introduced new position of advisors, it is still not always possible to choose individual educational trajectory. Not all HEIs have own software or qualified specialists to let teaching staff and students make their own schedule. With some positive examples (KIMEP, SDU and Satpayev university) the majority of universities lag behind with making schedules on paper or in Excel. Another issue here is that students prefer to choose not qualified, but loyal teachers to have less working load and better grades which guarantee keeping scholarships. The last challenge which I would like to discuss today is impact of the pandemic on educational process. Here we can identify several aspects. First is current situation of the infrastructure. Not all students, especially in the remote areas, have access to the Internet which makes it difficult for them to use Zoom, Teams and other platforms. It is not always possible for them to submit their papers before deadlines. Teachers can be affected by this, too. Second is IT level competence of both teaching staff and students. Even though, programs like Zoom or Teams don’t require high level of knowledge in programming, some teaching staff experienced difficulties at the beginning of transition to online mode of education. Competences in presentation making and video- recording and editing are another moment for discussion. Most of the teachers and students put too much text on slides which makes it difficult for comprehension. And the last point is cheating. Kazakhstan as some other post-Soviet countries has still not developed institute of the intellectual property. Downloading music, movies and other materials from free online resources is still widely spread in the country. That is why it is no surprise that students try to cheat during mid-terms and finals. What is the solution? If we convert finals from written into oral form this will become time-consuming and teaching staff is not paid for extra time spent on the final examinations. жүктеу/скачать 3,05 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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