For-credit learning and verified skills from global online learning provider have become fundamental pillars of the Ministry’s higher education and skills strategies.

The speed of digital transformation is radically reshaping the labor market, and requiring universities to rethink how their course offerings connect curricula to careers. Building on our ongoing work to support national higher education systems during this period of change, I’m delighted to announce that we are renewing our relationship with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education, further integrating for-credit world-class learning into the country’s higher education sector.

Promoting the Kazakh language in online education: as part of the initiative, over 4,000 courses on priority topics including AI, GenAI, data science, and machine learning were translated into Kazakh to overcome language barriers, and ensure that the best education is available in the national tongue.

Promoting the Kazakh language in online education: as part of the initiative, over 4,000 courses on priority topics including AI, GenAI, data science, and machine learning were translated into Kazakh to overcome language barriers, and ensure that the best education is available in the national tongue.

• Modernizing Kazakhstan’s higher education curricula, by providing Kazakh students with access to 13,500 courses from more than 375 of the world’s leading companies and universities, and enabling Coursera courses to be taken for credit. Students earn official transferable ECTS credits toward their degrees by completing job-relevant certifications.

• Over 235,000 students reached

• Over 235,000 students reached

• Over 235,000 students reached

• Over 235,000 students reached

Among those Kazakhstani universities whose students have benefited from access to the Coursera platform is International Information Technology University (IITU). Over 6,000 of its students have enrolled in nearly 99,000 courses, completing over 86,000 of them — an 87% completion rate. Highly satisfied learners (9/10 average rating) attribute their course selection to industry relevance (45%) and practical application (30%).

Among those Kazakhstani universities whose students have benefited from access to the Coursera platform is International Information Technology University (IITU). Over 6,000 of its students have enrolled in nearly 99,000 courses, completing over 86,000 of them — an 87% completion rate. Highly satisfied learners (9/10 average rating) attribute their course selection to industry relevance (45%) and practical application (30%).