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Hope you enjoyed your break and did valuable data collection.

This blog intends to consider whether education can be used as a main instrument for country's development. Today, many countries understand the value of education in struggling with the instability and improvement, however, in Kazakhstan education sphere is not fully considered as a tool for development. Despite the fact, that development programs, like "Kazakhstan 2030" and "Kazakhstan 2050" includes the improvement of education, this area still faces challenges in meeting world demands. This point can be proved by funding - only 3.1% from GDP, while developed and highly industrialized countries have higher expenditures (UNDP, 2014). 

In this blog I would like to contemplate the role of education in East Asian countries, as in the short length of time they become highly industrialized countries. These countries can be used as models of using education to achieve development goals. The reforming of education spread widely and its role was crucial in overall development (Dornbacsh, 1987; Education Economics, 1994; OECD, 2010; Wang, 2014; Morris, 2008). Many researches have a phrase such as “East Asian Miracle”, highlighting the rapid development of those countries. Stiglitz (2006) in turn claims that education is the major focus on of that “Miracle”. Moreover, The World Bank (1993) emphasized the role of education in East Asian countries’ success, Cowley (1991) believed that development was occurred due to the well-educated labor force, and also Dornbacsh (1987) assumed that Korean growth mostly benefited from the highly trained workforce. 

Experience of developed and highly industrialized countries show the decisive role of the education in human development and building resilient nation. In this case, it seems that governments should pay attention for developing state education system. 

Kazakhstan more than likely can achieve such success in development, but, unfortunately, unless education will not be in a special attention of a government, country will feel problems with real development. I would suggest first of all to raise the funding for educational needs to 10%. What is your opinions on this?
 

References:
Cowley, A. (1991). Asia's emerging economies; burning bright. The Economist.
Dornbacsh, R. &. (1987). Korean growth policy. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Economics, E. (1994). Education and industrialization: The Korean nexus in human resources development.
Morris, P. &. (2008). Human resource development in East Asia: A comparative analysis. Asia Pasific Journal of Education.
OECD. (2010). Singapore: Repid improvement followed by strong performance. Strong performers and successful reformers in education: lessons from PISA for the United States.
UNDP. (2014). Human Development Report 2014. Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience. New York: PBM Graphics.
Wang, D. (2014). A Development Dilemma for Secondary Vocational Education. Chinese EDucation & Society.