In Aktau, more than 100 children cannot start their education because the new school was not opened by 1 September as previously promised.
According to Ulysmedia.kz, despite the children having been enrolled in the school, lessons have not yet begun. Furthermore, it is impossible to transfer to another school due to a lack of available places.
Parents blame the management of the education department for this. In their opinion, the department should have foreseen such problems in advance.
For their part, representatives of the education department claim that this situation has arisen due to the negligence of the contractors.
"The school is completely ready for use, however, due to a delay in processing the documents, we cannot start lessons. The delay occurred due to the fault of the contracting organisation, which did not submit the necessary package of documents in a timely manner", explained the head of the department of the Aktau education authority.
It is reported that the opening date of the educational institution was postponed several times. Now parents have been promised that children will be able to start lessons on 1 October.
It will be recalled that at the beginning of September it became known that children from the village of Aktogan in the Merki district of the Zhambyl region are forced to study in a House of Culture due to the unfinished construction of a school. 600 schoolchildren are currently being taught in the building.
The so-called 'study rooms' are separated by a curtain, and the institution's staff use the stairwell as a staff room.
At the same time, it was reported that in the village of Novonezhinka in the Auliekol district of the Kostanay region, schoolchildren are forced to study in a semi-renovated building. Only four classrooms are ready in the building, where lessons for middle school students take place.
Senior students are studying in the local wrestling hall, and first-graders in the kindergarten. It is reported that the Novonezhinka Secondary School has just over 300 pupils in total.
Incidentally, the day after the media publication, it was reported that a wall had collapsed at Novonezhinka School. According to the akimat, there were no children or teachers in the school at the time, and no one was injured.
Later, it became known that in the village of Sharbulak in the Kazygurt district of the Turkestan region, there were not enough places in classrooms for all the children, so some are now studying in the corridor.