Education in Kazakhstan
Pre-school education
Kindergartens (3-6 years old)
School (free, mandatory, socialized secondary school education is provided Constitution(1995)); transition to 12 year model of schooling;
Primary school(1-4 grades)
Lower Secondary School (5-9 grades)
After 9 grade, s-s can enter colleges
Higher Secondary School (10-11 grades)
Unified National Testing (since 2004) s-s pass 5 subjects: math, Kazakh, Russian, History of KZ and elective subject
Higher Education(Kz joined Bologna Process in 2010),(establishing credit system of ed in 2002)
Bachelor degree (4 years)
Master degree (2 years)
Phd degree (3 years)
Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools(implementation of the project since 2008)
7-11 grades
Nazarbayev University - is considered to be world class teaching and research university.
English-medium university
established in 2009
Bolashak Programme (high performing s-s get scholarships to get higher education abroad and then come back and work for 5 years in Kz) since 1993
'Linguistic Truinity' (announced by the RK President in 2006) - RK citizens should speak Kazakh, Russian and English languages
Ministry of education, departments of education in regions, cities and districts
releasing and accomplishing target state and international programs; tate accreditation of educational institutions; attestation of pedagogic staff;
financing educational institutions, creating state foundations of stabilizing and developing educational system; preparing state normative of financing educational institutions;
determining the list of professions and specialties, according to which the professional preparation is carried out;
Some problems in education
Low prestige of the teaching profession,
low level of qualification of most teachers
Decrease in quality of education
Shortage of schools, kindergartens