THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATES

Currently, there is no clear, logically structured holistic system of entrepreneurial education in Kazakhstan. It is necessary to change the conceptual approach to teaching entrepreneurship through education. This is explained by the fact that the totality of knowledge is inferior in efficiency to the acquisition of competencies and skills that arise only in the process of independent activity of students.

The main purpose of the article is to study the impact of entrepreneurial education on the employment of graduates of Kazakhstani universities and to develop recommendations for the formation of entrepreneurial skills of students through entrepreneurial education for future specialists, which will become a catalyst for the development of the economy of Kazakhstan in the future as entrepreneurs.

The methodological basis of the study was system analysis, statistical analysis and questionnaires. Our study combined qualitative and quantitative methods to study graduate employment and graduate entrepreneurship. In particular, a survey was conducted, data on the values and needs of entrepreneurial education and how it can be improved were analyzed. A qualitative approach made it possible to conduct an in-depth analysis of the research problems.

Based on the results of the study, recommendations were made to improve the training of Kazakhstani students in terms of entrepreneurial thinking and abilities, and the need for additional research involving university students to present material in the reconstruction of the internal environment of universities was emphasized.

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