Majilis proposed to abandon the trilingualism

6 December, a meeting of the Majilis of the Parliament, which proposed to abandon the teaching of physics, chemistry and biology in three languages, and saved money to repair or even to rebuild a new school.

Directors who attended the meeting also noticed that Irina Smirnova, using the link on the inefficiency of teaching in three languages, cited the example of only one outdoor lesson in Astana, where the teacher, neznaya language read all the leaflets, and the subject knew only five students out of thirty.

The representative of the Ministry of education argues that it is impossible to judge the entire education system is only one lesson.

'For full judgement necessary to visit a lot of lessons of different teachers, then we can judge. In 2017 have been allocated large funds for the retraining of teachers for trilingual, after studying 153 schools began to teach subjects in three languages, but only after teachers spent weeks preparing to teach' - said the representative.

It was also mentioned that nearly 400 schools were teaching in English.

'In the future this will lead to the fact that almost all teachers will be prepared for trilingual education. We want all educational work and class hours were conducted in the Kazakh language, and only the part in Russian and English. This will give a modern teacher time for adaptation in the face of trilingual' she explained.

Meanwhile, she noted that in 2017 for training more than 13 thousand teachers allocated more than 6 billion tenge. In 2018, language courses and funding from the national budget will continue.

Of the funds allocated for the construction of schools in Kazakhstan over the same period, Karinova promised to inform later.

'Now there is an increase in the qualifications of almost all teachers is a serious step in the development of the program. It is important to note that everything goes according to plan '100 steps', and now sold 79 step, involving the transition to English in Universities and schools. 2019 will begin teaching four subjects in English' she added after a briefing in the CCS.

In schools with Kazakh language learning natural and mathematical Sciences will be conducted in the Kazakh language, excluding physics, chemistry, biology and computer science that will be taught in English. World history, Russian language and literature – in Russian. In schools with Russian language of teaching natural and mathematical Sciences will be conducted in the Russian language, excluding physics, chemistry, biology and computer science that will be taught in English, history of Kazakhstan, Kazakh language and literature in Kazakh language.