Kazakhstan Sets National Standards for Artificial Intelligence in Education

Key Highlights :

Kazakhstan signed its initial national AI education strategy, which will take effect from 2025-2029.

The strategy includes AI in school curricula, enhances teacher training, and helps project-based learning.

Safe-guards focus on ethics, data protection, children's rights, and guaranteeing autonomy for teachers.

Key Background :

The adopting of national standards of education for AI by Kazakhstan is part of the national plan for the promotion of digital development. With presidential decrees, the drive seeks to make the education sector ready for a new wave of technology consistent with national values.

The model covers all strands of general, technical, and vocational education. It offers guidance for ethical and legal management with the focus being first and foremost on data security and academic integrity. Topmost priority is accorded to children's rights as well as the teacher's authority to render AI an assistant rather than a replacement for human teachers.

For students, AI courses will begin entering Digital Literacy and Informatics classes starting from the 2025–2026 school year and onwards. Other activity such as online courses and subject-related activity such as a "Day of AI" will also help make individuals feel at ease with the technology. All this is intended to raise levels of AI literacy and foster creativity, allowing learning to transition from consumption to innovation.

For teachers, a formal process of professional development has been initiated. The three-step model of acquire, deepen, create will enable the teachers to learn how to utilize AI to the fullest, implement it in the classroom, and eventually create AI-assisted teaching material.

In a bid to ensure that the standards are put into practice effectively, ministries of Kazakhstan have come up with a roadmap and monitoring framework. The monitoring will be on safe use, ethical compliance, and measurable outcomes in institutions. This systematic approach is aimed at operationalizing the framework from policy to practice.

With its strategy formulation, Kazakhstan turned to global standards, applying best international practice to the local context. By doing this, the country hopes to keep up with trends in the world without compromising on national priorities, values, and local circumstances. The initiative reflects the willingness of Kazakhstan to empower the next generation with digital capability without any cost to balance innovation with responsibility.

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Mia Jones

Mia Jones is a Managing Editor at Education Excellence Magazine.