Education in Kazakhstan dates to the Soviet influence to unify Kazakhstan into the broader Soviet Union under communism. Soviet redirects here. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ...

Following independence from the Soviet Union a major economic depression cut "public financing for education, which dropped from 6% of gross domestic product in 1991 to about 3% in 1994, before rising to 4% in 1999."[1] Elementary- and secondary-school teachers remain badly underpaid; in 1993 more than 30,000 teachers (or about one-seventh of the 1990 teaching staff) left education, many of them to seek more lucrative employment.

In 1994 Kazakstan had 8,575 elementary and secondary schools (grades one through twelve) attended by approximately 3.2 million students, and 244 specialized secondary schools with about 222,000 students. In 1992 about 51 percent of eligible children were attending some 8,500 preschools in Kazakstan. In 1994 some 272,100 students were enrolled in the republic's sixty-one institutes of higher learning. Fifty-four percent of the students were Kazak, and 31 percent were Russian.

Kazakhstan's 1995 constitution provides a free and mandatory secondary school education, and citizens can compete for free education in the republic's institutions of higher learning. Meanwhile, private education is permitted but remains subject to state control and supervision.

In 2003 Asian Development Bank (ADB) donated $600,000 to help fund schools. [2] The United States provides 137 Peace Corps members to help education in the country.[3] The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. ... Peace Corps volunteers usually serve for two years. ...

The country still lags in literacy rates, while improving funding, management and quality remain low.[4]

See also

• Education in Russia
• Education in Siberia
• Education in the Soviet Union
• List of schools in Kazakhstan

This article is about education in Russia. ... Soviet education was organized in a highly centralized government-run system. ...

Links

• Structure of education in Kazakhstan
• [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+kz0032) Kazakstan

Education]

• UNESCO's page on Kazakstan education
• Kazakstan's education