98% of schools of Kazakhstan have access to Internet

19:57, 24 October 2011

ASTANA. October 24. KAZINFORM 98% of schools of Kazakhstan are connected to the Internet and 37% of them have broadband access, the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan informs; pm.kz reports.

In accordance with the information of the Ministry, the provision with computer equipment is 16 students per one computer.

Kazakhstan has been taking the measures on providing schools with multimedia and language laboratories since 2005.

'3450 such laboratories were provided to schools. Besides, the schools received software that allows to conduct management, surveillance and communication with students and gives a teacher an opportunity to have full control during the programming lesson,' the statement of the Ministry reads.

The system of online learning is introduced in educational institutions on the instructions of the President of Kazakhstan. 3571 schools were provided with interactive boards over the last three years.

It should be noted that the software of the interactive boards functions in three languages - Kazakh, Russian and English.

The best teachers hold interactive lessons, republican meetings, trainings for teachers on all subjects by means of this special programming software.

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