New face of school in Kazakhstan

During last ten years, the schools in Kazakhstan have undergone numerous innovations. Influenced by new approach to the quality of academic education, they break down longtime traditions of the soviet schools, develop new educational models, and strive for their place in the international educational environment.

We are now ready to implement new reform: the secondary education period will be increased from 11 years to 12 years. 12-year schools will replace the 11-year schools. There is still no common agreement on this innovation introduced by the Ministry of Education. There are opinions both for and against it.

The necessity of the transition of schools in Kazakhstan to 12 years education arose after Kazakhstan has signed the Lisbon Convention in 1997, which imposes definite obligations in the international community.

The reasons and potential positive impact of 12-year education in Kazakhstan are obvious. The first reason is disparity of the educational system in Kazakhstan to the European and international standards. This is not that our children cannot manage the school programme for 11 years, they can do this even twice faster without any effect on quality of education. But children should not only receive the knowledge at school, they should also learn how to live in the community and how to apply the received knowledge in life. School is the place where children should grow up and gain a profession, which will be later demanded. Our children always participate in the international competitions with excellent results, our graduates successfully continue their education in the international universities and at the same time everywhere and always they are the youngest. In accordance with our law, 18 years is the age when a person is considered an adult. Besides, increase of the training period will reduce the load on the children and improve their health. The negative aspect of the 12-year education is lack of motivation to study. Children were the first who disagreed with the increase of school period. The problem of army enrolment of young people, graduating in the age of 18 years old, also stays unresolved. They simply have no time to enter the institute.

There is also another important social problem. Many families with low income prefer to have a worker in their family rather than a school student.

The mechanism of transition to the 12-year education in Kazakhstan is not developed yet, thus it is more likely that in 2001 children will study in 11-year schools.

This year as well as the previous, the preschool education will be obligatory in accordance with the Law concerning Education in the RK. The preschool education implies that by the 1st of September a child knows the alphabet and all the figures, and can count to 20.

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