Terminology of such concepts as «strategy», «strategic management» and «strategic planning» Abstract. Education in Kazakhstan has experienced a lot of changes and transformations in the beginning of the XXI century. Recently, domestic education in Kazakhstan has been transformed from human and material resources to strategic management. The main goal of education should be to improve competitiveness and quality of education. There are disclosed content and correlation of several terms used in strategic management, a comparative analysis of their interpretation in domestic and foreign publications is carried out. There are considered ways of translation terms from English to Russian? language as well as the difference of the terms “strategy”, “strategic planning” and “strategic management”, which became part of Kazakhstani science and practice in the 1990s. We made a comparative analysis of the terms “strategy”, “strategic management” and “strategic planning” in domestic and foreign publications. Keywords: strategy, management, strategy of the management, strategic planning, strategic management.