Building regulations and safety standards and children's health to reconsider in 2017
A working meeting of the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Imangali Tasmagambetov with the Senate of the Kazakh Parliament deputies - members of the Socio-Cultural Development Committee and Science under the chairmanship of Chairman of Committee Byrganym Aitimov, was held today.
Astana. 26 January. Kazakhstan Today - During the meeting, key issues relating to the social unit were discussed. According to the Vice Prime Minister I. Tasmagambetov, 7 opinions on education, health and culture were sent to the Parliament during 2016.
The issues relating to early childhood care and education, such as the automation of queue procedure of children and referral to kindergartens, expanding the network of pre-school facilities, including through PPPs; it is planned to create 41.9 thousand new jobs in this year.
As for secondary education, the construction of 56 schools instead of emergency and three-shift schools, transition of 2, 5, 7 classes to the training program updates and a five-day school week, holding of the UNT on the new format with the division final and entrance exams will be discussed.
It should be noted that in the current year it it is planned to review all building regulations and standards for school meals, equipment, school uniforms, sports and other matters affecting the safety, health and welfare of children.
The launch of the project "Free vocational education for all" in the Technical and Vocational Education, according to preliminary data, 47.3 thousand people are involved, the development of new modular programs on 65 work specialties, training of 5,200 teachers and masters of industrial training for the implementation of new programs is worked out.
The principles of corporate governance in higher education, the establishment of internal audit services, changes in the legal form of higher education institutions with the transition to non-profit joint-replacement state certification internationally accredited universities will be implemented in the higher and postgraduate education.
In addition, health issues on the creation of Social Health Insurance Fund and its branches in the regions were addressed. In 2017, pediatric faculty in all medical institutes and pediatric areas were gradually restored, the electronic queue will be implemented in all regions in polyclinics. The offices of centralized breeding of chemotherapy on the basis of cancer dispensaries in accordance with international standards will be opened gradually. The issues on implementation of regressive margins on medicines in the retail network were also discussed.
Source: The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Official website
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