The deadline for accepting applications for the Teacher of Kazakhstan project was extended until August 15

The purpose of the competition is to identify, support and encourage advanced teachers, as well as to increase the prestige of the teacher's work in our country. The winner of the National Award «Teacher of Kazakhstan» will receive a cash prize of 4 million tenge.

The «Teacher of Kazakhstan» Award is held within the framework of the global project «Teacher of the World», which is an analogue of the Nobel Peace Prize with a prize fund of 1 million US dollars. The award was established by the Warke Foundation, with the aim of improving the status of teachers in the world.

The selection of nominees is carried out according to the established criteria of the Warke Foundation, which are the organizers of the Global Award. The transparency of the selection process and the evaluation process of the National Award is monitored by an International Audit Company. According to the results of 2 stages of voting, 10 finalists will be determined, who will be nominated from Kazakhstan for the Global «Teacher of the World» Award in 2022.

Also this year, a new direction «Teacher of the Future» is being launched. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to select the 10 best senior students studying in the areas of teacher training from 10 universities. And their mentors will be 10 finalists of the National Award «Teacher of Kazakhstan». You can apply through the website: www.teacherprize.kz The initiator of the project is the Foundation for the Development of Socially Significant Initiatives. The general partner is the Social Projects Development Foundation «Samruk-Kazyna Trust» on behalf of the group of companies of JSC «Samruk-Kazyna».

«It is very important for the «Samruk-Kazyna Trust» to support children, including through high-quality education. And to do this, we need to improve the quality of training of our teachers, raise the status of this profession. We believe that the «Teacher of the Year» award will serve as an additional incentive for teachers, and the grants that the 30 best rural schools will receive as a result of the competition will improve the conditions of education in educational institutions. I would like to add that last year our Foundation implemented 4 projects in the field of education on behalf of the «Samruk-Kazyna» JSC Group of Companies», said Miras Irgebayev, Head of the Corporate Service and official representative of the «Samruk - Kazyna Trust» Foundation.

It is worth noting that the NPJSC «Center for Support of Civil Initiatives» within the framework of the project of the National Award «Teacher of Kazakhstan» organizes the selection process for accepting applications for the «Barine Bilim» grant competition in the amount of up to 1 million tenge to 30 priority rural schools for the implementation of social projects with the support of the general partner-the «Samruk-Kazyna Trust» Foundation

The solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the National Prize will be held on September 24, 2021 in Almaty at the Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Abai. The format assumes holding the event in one location and in compliance with all sanitary and epidemiological norms.