Aliya Serikbayeva

Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools

There are currently ten secondary schools operating in the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools network across Kazakhstan with six more opening in the next academic year. Another four schools are planned for the near future. The schools are spread nationwide across Kazakhstan. The students who attend the intellectual schools are chosen on the results of their examinations s at the end of school grade. They are required to show significant aptitudes in science, mathematics and languages. Successful students are supported by a president's scholarship during their secondary education. All the students are gifted and talented and well-motivated to succeed; the schools aim is to develop them as independent learners and capable critical thinkers. We invite you to participate in an exciting and unique project in the development of a number of intellectual schools named after the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is the president's initiative to develop a fundamentally new way of educating the future intellectual elite of the nation. One of the distinctive features of the schools is the trilingual policy – with the main subjects being taught in Kazakh, Russian and English.