Public-private partnership development in Kazakhstan education

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the application of public-private partnership mechanisms in projects in the education sector of Kazakhstan and develop proposals for its activation. There are were used general scientific research methods as observation, description, analysis and synthesis, as well as comparative, formal-logical and other methods of cognition in the research process. As the research information base was used the register of public-private partnership projects, which is maintained by the similarly named Center authorized to accompany public-private partnership projects in Kazakhstan. In this case, the sorting, calculation and interpretation of data on PPP (public-private partnership) projects in the field of education was carried out by the author independently from a large array of data presented in the registry. In this article a relevant quantitative information on public-private partnership projects was demonstrated and analyzed in the field of education of the Republic of Kazakhstan in a regional and sectoral context. Apart from that, an analysis of public-private partnership projects in the field of education of republican significance was carried out, their characteristics were given. The forms and sources of project financing have been investigated, the features of the implementation of public-private partnership projects in the field of education of the Republic of Kazakhstan have been determined. Ways are proposed to increase the activity of the private sector in engaging in public-private partnerships in education by increasing their investment attractiveness.