The article is devoted to assessing the state of art of education, global trends, modern general development trends and priorities for increasing the competitiveness of educational services. The author proposes an interesting turn of higher education from a separate element of the education system to a broad interaction with the country's economy and science based on an innovative research approach. The development of higher education in the Republic of Kazakhstan is aimed at ensuring the quality of educational services and increasing the demand for and employment of graduates. The article considers foreign experience, evaluates and conducts a comparative analysis to identify new approaches to improving the quality of education.

globalization, internationalization, digitalization, modernization, transformation, quality of education, ecosystems