Kazakhstan The System of Secondary Education
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Session ID: 150Kazakhstan: Bolashak! Education is the future!
AACRAO 98th Annual MeetingApril 1 – 4, 2012
Philadelphia
Gunnar VahtEstonian ENIC/[email protected] 2012
General Secondary Education (4+5+2 = 11 years)
Transition to 12year general secondary education (4+6+2) by 2020. In 2014, as an experiment, students from 102 schools will be the first
graduates of 12year general secondary education
Types of institutions: General education school (general, no profile); Gymnasium (profiled to Humanities); Lyceum (profiled to Social Sciences and Physics/Mathematics). General secondary education courses are also provided at vocational education institutions.
Certificate of General Secondary Education
Bilingual (Kazakh and Russian) document:
Zhelpy orta bilim turaly attestat / Attestat ob obschem srednem obrazovanii
Serial codes of certificates
Model Until 1998: МОБ
Model 1999 – 2007: ОБ
Model since 2008: ЖОБ
General Secondary Education Certificate
General Secondary Education Certificate (with honours)
General Secondary Education Certificate (with Gold Medal)
General secondary education programme
Courses (Grades 10 and 11):Kazakh language Principles of CivicsKazakh literature Principles of LawRussian language TechnologyRussian literature Phisical Culture(National language and literature) Military TrainingForeign language Ethics and PsychologyAlgebra and principles of analize Applied CoursesGeometryInformatics (Elective(s))GeographyBiologyPhysicsChemistryWorld HistoryHistory of Kazakhstan
Grading system
Grade Kaz Rus ______________
5 uzdik / otlichno (excellent)
4 zhaksy / khorosho (good)
3 kanagat / udovletvoritel’no (satisfactory) 2 nashar / neudovletvoritel’no (fail)
1 (fail)
Addendum
Serial code and number of the certificate
Name of school
Courses
Grades
Unified National Test
Единое национальное тестирование (ЕНТ) – Unified National Test
Since 2008 In 4 (or 5) subjects Grading: 100point scale (or 125point scale)
The Unified National Test is an admission requirement for the students who are going to continue their studies in Kazakhstan. The EHT is not considered as an admission requirement if a person is going to continue the studies abroad.
The General Secondary School programme can be completed and the Certificate of General Secondary Education is awarded without taking the EHT. In that case, the student has to take (and pass) the necessary examinations organized by the school
Certificate of Unified National Test
Subjects: Russian; History of Kazakhstan; Mathematics; Chemistry
70 total grade
Technical and vocational secondary edcuation
On the basis of basic (Grade 9) or general secondary (Grade 11) education
Technical secondary (2...3 years, at postsecondary level min. 1 year)Vocational (professional) secondary (2...3 years, at postsecondary level min. 1 year)
Types of institutions:professional lyceumuchilische (specialized vocational school)kolledzh (an institution may be also a structural unit of HEI)higher technical school
National standard programmes
Tekhnikalyk zhene kesiptik bilimi turaly diplom / Diplom o tekhnicheskom i professionalnom obrazovanii (Diploma of Technical and Vocational Education)
A professional qualification is awarded: Nurse; Midwife; Technician; Bookkeeper; ....
Diploma of Technical and Vocational Education (upper and postsecondary)