Teachers at Heart of President’s Vision: NU Researchers on Kazakhstan’s Education Future
Kazakhstan has backed its education ambitions with substantial investment in new schools, higher teacher salaries and measures to strengthen the profession. Speaking at a Republic Day event in October 2025, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said education funding had tripled over the previous five years and teachers’ salaries had doubled. Yet investment alone cannot transform learning. As…
Kazakhstan’s Higher Education Drive: From Importing Universities to Producing Knowledge at Home
At a July 1 government session, Science and Higher Education Minister Sayasat Nurbek laid out a reform model built around five priorities: human capital, educational quality, science, innovation and artificial intelligence. The list shows how far the policy agenda has traveled since 2022, when the former Education and Science Ministry split into two ministries. Universities…
