Kazakhstan to Replace School Textbooks After Hundreds of Errors Found

More than 700 errors and issues have been found in Kazakhstani school textbooks, Orda.kz reports.

The problems were reported on Facebook by minister of culture and information Aida Balayeva. According to her, the issues include factual mistakes, incorrect mathematical definitions and solutions, inaccurate illustrations, outdated approaches, and borrowed materials that were not adapted to the Kazakhstani context.

Some textbooks also included literary works that are not part of the school curriculum, as well as what Balayeva described as “incorrect historical interpretations.”

Balayeva noted that some textbooks had gone far too long without proper updates. Certain manuals had been used for up to nine years without serious revision.

A textbook must meet not only the formal requirements of expert review, but also the modern needs of the state, society and the education system,the minister wrote.

The Ministry of Education plans to update the textbooks in stages. Manuals for grades three and seven are expected to be replaced by August 30, 2026. Textbooks for grades four and nine should be updated by January 1, 2027, while grade eight manuals are scheduled for replacement by April 1, 2027.

Balayeva stressed that the ministry is not cancelling the decisions of the subject expert commission that previously approved the textbooks.

This is about responsibility for the final result. Education does not tolerate a formal approach,she added.

Original author: Ruslan Loginov

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