НИШ химико-биологического направления, Шымкент-Каратау
Shymkent, Kazakhstan · est. 2013 · StateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · accreditationNazarbayev Intellectual Schools · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything else.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools - a state network of Kazakhstan, an autonomous organisation of education, created in 2008. Twenty campuses in nineteen cities plus two in Astana. Admission is competitive, tuition is free, and some of the campuses run International Baccalaureate programmes. The network acts as the operator of the schools, while accreditations and authorisations of their own are obtained by each campus for itself.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.