The meeting of the Minister of Defense Colonel-General Ruslan Zhaksylykov and the Minister of Education and Science Askhat Aimagambetov was held at the National Defense University.
The heads of the department discussed the actual issues of military-patriotic education of young people and proposals for increasing the prestige and attractiveness of military service.
Implementing the tasks set forth by the head of state, relevant ministries have developed a number of proposals. Among them, there is a five percent quota for entering higher educational institutions for young people who have completed military service and graduates of "Young Soldier" classes. The Ministry of Education and Science is ready to allocate more than 3,000 grants for these purposes. In addition, upon entering a higher education institution after a term of service, a graduate is exempted from mandatory three-year work.
The question of providing the children of servicemen who died during military service and participated in special and peacekeeping operations with the right to receive a quota for higher education was also proposed.
The question of providing the opportunity to study mass online courses for conscripts is under consideration.
Minister of Education and Science Askhat Aimagambetov made a proposal to open colleges on the basis of military units. For this, it is necessary to determine the list of specialties and place a state order for personnel training, obtain a license for educational activities, and prepare a training-material base.
At the meeting, the issues of organization of initial military training in general education schools of the country were discussed. Today, this subject is taught in 6,170 educational institutions and includes 365,000 high school students. The content of the subject is focused on the basics of military affairs, robotics and IT-technology training.
The Minister of Defense Colonel-General Ruslan Zhaksylykov informed the participants of the meeting about the military-patriotic work in the field of youth.
The head of the Ministry of Defense spoke in detail about the implementation of the "One whole nation - One whole army" military-patriotic education program, in which the goals and tasks of military-patriotic education for young people, implementation dates, target indicators, sources of funding and expected results are defined.
As a result of the event, a prospective plan for further development of cooperation in the field of military-patriotic education of youth between the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Education and Science was determined.