The Ministry of education of Kazakhstan plans to cut teaching hours in schools.

The Ministry of education of Kazakhstan plans to cut teaching hours in schools.


MES follows the path of development and reduce the burden on the shoulders of teachers and students. The first step was reducing the number of homework assignments and allow the schools to distribute the load in a training week.

'In General, homework was less than 1/3, in addition, in August 2017 sanitary rules in schools have changed, and training is reduced from 45 minutes and the school determine how many days a week students have to study.' - said the Director of preschool and secondary education MES Sholpan Karinova.

Also, according to her, if earlier, the teachers formed a training volume for the day, now expect it for a week and based on the conditions and possibilities of the school, determine how many days need to learn.

The MES has established a working group and start to consider different options. In General, the directions to be installed. In October last year, the Kazakhstan Association of parents on family issues and values discussed reducing the load on teachers. Have already raised the question about how to set a maximum number of 7 lessons for older pupils.