In the system of technical and vocational education of the Abai region, there are 37 colleges, of which 21 are state, 16 are private. In the 2021-2022 academic year, the contingent of students is 20,789 people, including 13,100 students by state order. The personnel potential of the TVET region is 1826 teachers and masters of industrial training.
The number of colleges implementing dual education is 21 (with a contingent of 3,400 ). As part of the introduction of academic independence, educational programs are developed by colleges independently with the participation of employers based on the requirements of the state mandatory standard and professional standards, i.e. when applying for employment, college graduates will fully meet the needs of employers. In the 2021-2022 academic year, more than 300 educational programs in the context of specialties were included in the Register of educational programs of the NAO "Talap" by colleges.
The Zhas Maman project is being successfully implemented in the region, modern Competence Centers have been opened on the basis of 6 colleges. Competence centers will be the base sites and provide an opportunity for students of the entire region to complete internships and training on equipment that meets international standards. Since October 2022, the Ministry of Education plans to launch the Zhas Maman-2 program, which includes 13 state colleges, 6 of which are located in rural areas.
There are 17 dormitories in the region with 21 state colleges. The design capacity is 3,047 seats.
In 2021-2022, 2 colleges commissioned a dormitory with 392 beds. (Semey College of Business and Service with 288 seats and Yayagoz Polytechnic College with 104 seats )
Since the first days of the Republic of Kazakhstan's entry into the WorldSkills movement, Semey colleges have been leaders in championships of various levels -regional, national, world - in terms of the number of prizes in the ranking of cities of Kazakhstan. In 2021, the regional team of the region took 1st place at the VI National WorldSkills Championship, winning 9 gold medals. To date, work is underway to organize participation in the WorldSkills Competition 2022 championship as part of the National Team of Kazakhstan.
The requirements for the training of specialists in VET programs and the reinsertion of the entire system of vocational education for the formation of competencies in demand in the labor market have been increased for colleges.For this, the profiling of colleges is important. Profiling is necessary in terms of the sectoral layout of educational institutions, when the specialization of technical and vocational education becomes more specific in industry areas.
To date, a working group has been established in the region to profile the organizations of the TVET region. The group analyzes the region's need for personnel, analyzes the effectiveness of placing a state order, taking into account the territorial location of the TVET organization, specialties and contingent. This will eliminate the duplication of specialties in educational institutions of the region and the unification of single-profile colleges located in the region.