The priority task of revamping the higher education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan will enable its integration into global education. The content of education and the quality of training specialists' must be revamped according to modern socio-economic and political conditions in order to develop the Republic that it might take its place among the highly advanced countries of the world. The higher education system of Kazakhstan has undergone substantial structural transformations over the past decade. The authors conclude that the higher education system is where the state and society interact in terms of the common interests of their institutions and citizens. It supposes the legal relations of entities' compulsory participation in management, the possibility of their influencing the development of the higher education system as well as bearing the responsibility for creating conditions that are necessary for the higher education system to fulfil its functions. In this regard, there arises the necessity of reconsidering the role and the functions of the state in providing educational structure and including other social institutions in solving the various problems of education and to reconsider the role of educational institutions and learners in the process of educational organisation.