Experiment on 12-year education will continue in 104 schools of Kazakhstan
11:58, 21 August 2012
ASTANA. August 21. KAZINFORM In the new academic year experiment on the 12-year education will continue in the 9-10 grades in 104 schools of the country, Vice Minister of Education and Science Makhmetgali Sarybekov announced Tuesday at August Conference "Pedagogical Innovation: from Development to Implementation" held in the Nazarbayev Intellectual School.
"It is impossible to immediately modernize the huge system of education, which includes a third of the population. Therefore, on the instruction of the President of Kazakhstan, we have created the so-called "points of growth". These experimental platforms, such as the Nazarbayev University, Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools must develop innovations, test them and introduce in the school system," Sarybekov said.
He noted that one of the major components of the education system upgrade is to transit to the 12-year education. The Ministry prepared the legal framework, developed strategic documents.