Post-olympiad support for grade 11
The IQanat Foundation has launched free programmes focused on academic support for rural school students
Peer-To-Peer
A flagship programme based on the principle of Giving Back: senior IQHSB students and Foundation programme participants become tutors for younger IQanat students who are just starting their path in IQanat. Experience, knowledge and support are passed on, keeping a cycle of kindness within the community.
During the year, classes are held online on a dedicated platform. During Olympiad stages, tutor-ustazes meet the children in person and continue teaching through face-to-face interaction. At the Final, when receiving a grant, participants often thank not only trustees and parents, but also the ustazes who accompanied them on this journey.
14958
students
1212
tutors
189
curators
Programme participants:
1
1
Students
Stage 2 Olympiad participants (grade 8) and grade 9 students
2
2
Tutors
Grade 9–11 students, finalists from previous years. They teach grade 8 students
3
3
Curators
Alumni who supervise the tutors
NUET
A new track preparing students for admission to Nazarbayev University. Classes are taught by IQanat High School of Burabay alumni who are themselves NU students.
The programme is already showing its first results: participant Aidynbai Aisultan from the village of Shayan in Baidibek district, Turkistan region, received a grant for the Foundation programme at Nazarbayev University. His mentor was Malik Smagulov, a 2025 graduate of IQanat High School of Burabay.
45
in total
For grade 11 students
Career guidance
Career guidance is a set of processes — from education and testing to internships and conversations with professionals — that help finalists choose their future career field.
Expected results:
• preparing finalists for a well-founded career choice that meets personal interests as well as social needs and labour-market demand;
• smoother socialisation of graduates.
1511
Number of participants
Duration: September–May
For students in grades 9–11
The project includes several implementation stages:
1
1
• Comprehensive career-guidance testing of students.
• Identifying the psychological type and describing individual personality traits.
• Identifying suitable potential professions.
2
2
Taking part in the Careers Marathon
3
3
Taking part in webinars with university representatives
4
4
Individual consultations
Mentoring
A project that brings together successful people of Kazakhstan to support IQanat finalists and share knowledge, experience and values.
Goal: to develop key skills in a chosen field and increase the motivation of IQanat programme participants, taking into account their individual needs and interests, without direct interference in their lives.
Expected results:
• nurturing socially successful individuals, raising a generation of mentors from among IQanat alumni and building a community of professional IQanat mentors to support rural children of Kazakhstan.
Types of mentoring:
1. By territory;
2. By track;
Project features:
• Voluntary participation of Mentor and Mentee;
• Pro bono;
• Long-term;
• Internal career ladder (Senior mentor – junior mentor – mentor – mentee);
400
Number of participants
Duration:
1 year or longer
For students in grades 9–11
and Alumni
Format:
online, themed meetings 1–2 times a month at the mentee’s request, active support via messaging apps
Project tracks:
Fundamentals of entrepreneurship
Emotional
intelligence
State. Thinking. Action
Meetings with school students from abroad
Meetings with school students from abroad
IELTS preparation
Career guidance
Chess
Blogging
Work stages:
1
1
Getting to know each other and building trust
2
2
One-to-one meetings and clarifying the request
3
3
Goal setting and planning
4
4
• Attracting, training and supporting active Mentees for the Junior Mentor role
• Organising one-to-one and group meetings
• Reviewing results and gathering feedback
Unified National Testing
In the 2023–2024 academic year the Foundation developed and launched the UNT-IQanat 2024 project, aimed at systematic and comprehensive preparation of grade 11 students in the Foundation’s post-olympiad support programme.
Expected results:
• Effective preparation with a teacher-mentor will lead to higher UNT scores;
• In-depth preparation for the theoretical and practical parts of the subject will help students handle different types of tasks;
• UNT preparation requires effective learning strategies that will be useful in the future;
• A responsible approach to UNT preparation will increase students’ motivation for personal development.
24
4
Teachers engaged (Kazakh- and Russian-medium)
Duration:
September 2024 – May 2025
For grade 11 students
Subjects:
History of
Kazakhstan
Mathematical
literacy
Reading
literacy
Mathematics
World
history
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Geography
Informatics
Kazakh language
Kazakh literature
Russian language
Russian literature
English
The project objectives are:
1
1
Individual subject preparation for students
2
2
Full mastery of the theoretical
and practical course
in the subjects
3
3
24/7 curator support
IELTS
The project prepares grade 11 students for IELTS to support their admission to Nazarbayev University and to universities abroad.
Learning involves individual work with each student.
Expected results:
• A high IELTS certificate score;
• Successful admission of students to Nazarbayev University;
• Successful admission of students to universities abroad.
Duration:
11 October 2023 – 12 January 2024
For grade 10 students
As part of the project the following is provided:
1
1
An introductory test
to determine English
proficiency (Mock Test)
2
2
Access
to all learning materials
3
3
Study of advanced grammar structures
4
1
Study and analysis of topics
that appear in the IELTS context
5
2
Building
IELTS vocabulary
6
3
Taking
IELTS practice tests
