Abstract:

An article is analyzed the Kazakhstan legislation on science and other official documents. The purpose of the article is to show that integration of science and education represents process of interaction, cooperation of the scientific organizations and institutions of higher education in Kazakhstan. Authors were revealed the main reasons, which are caused a need of integration of science and education; they considered the structure of costs of scientific and technical works on financing sources. One of problems for the current education system is insufficient scientific training of the teaching staff (TS) of higher school owing to weak participation in research works. It is considered within the scope of article the problems challenging  in integration process of the country; there are marked out their features; data on their influence on social and economic development are provided. The special attention is paid to a concrete example of the use of experience of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.