Results 2023

The year 2023 turned out to be the most productive and large-scale in all four years of the Fund’s work in the field of education. For us, the key agenda remains ensuring equal access to quality education for both rural and urban schoolchildren. It is encouraging that we have made significant progress in this direction and are getting closer to our goal of creating a network of 200 anchor schools in every district and single-industry town of Kazakhstan. As of now, there are 85 such schools, 6 of which are participants of the “Rural School Powered by NIS” project.

In 2023, a pilot project for the development of small-scale (low-enrollment) schools was launched for the first time in Kazakhstan. The Fund for Sustainable Development of Education became the operator of the project in Aktobe Region and engaged, free of charge, the country’s leading online education platforms. Experts of the Fund developed a concept for equipping science and digital classrooms, based on which modern educational equipment was installed in 134 schools across the region. In 2024, we will summarize the results and transfer all accumulated developments to the relevant ministry.