Education in a combined format was allowed in Kazakhstan due to the improvement and stabilization of the sanitary and epidemiological situation. Today at a briefing in the Central Communications Service, Kazakh Vice Minister of Education and Science Sholpan Karinova spoke about what requirements will have to be observed in schools. She said that since March, children from 1st to 5th grades of general education schools and from 1st to 7th of international schools were allowed to have ordinary classroom learning. The Ministry noted that students are not required to wear a uniform; they can attend classes in casual, tidy clothes. The main thing, of course, is to comply with all sanitary rules in order to prevent the spread of the dangerous virus. If cases of infection or contact with infected are recorded in a family, children will be able to continue their education in a distance format.
“To date, 47 percent of schoolchildren study in a regular format, while 53 percent keep studying in a distance format. In this regard, the institutions are given the right to independently determine the classes that will be held in a regular format and that are in a distance format. At the same time, the Ministry of Education prepared methodological recommendations to notify all educational institutions that all basic subjects recommended to be carried out in a regular format, and such subjects as art and crafts, music should be held in a distance format,” said Sholpan Karinova, Kazakh Vice Minister of Education and Science.
