Education in Kazakhstan

The education in Kazakhstan is conducted in two languages-Kazakh and Russian.The constitution prohibits any discrimination on the basis of language and guarantees equal rights in education regardless of nationality.Secondary education is compulsory in Kazakhstan .Children start school at the age of 7 and finish at 17 as a rule a child attends the school ,located in the neighborhood .However ,in big cities there are so -called special schools, offering deeper studies of the major European languages(French,English ,German)or the advanced courses in physics and mathematics and children ,attending one of there may have to commute from home.