State compensation for the costs of business for the construction of private schools were discussed in Almaty
How and why is it profitable to build private schools, shared Alpamys Satybaldin, Director of the Department of Promotion and External Communications of JSC "Financial Center" of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, during a press conference of the Regional Communications Service of Almaty.
A representative of the Financial Center said that at present, there is a mechanism for subsidizing bank loans for the construction and reconstruction of both dormitories and private schools in the amount of 9% through the Damu Entrepreneurship Development Fund.
As the speaker noted, the number of students in the country is growing every year, so one of the important tasks in the field of secondary education is to relieve overcrowded public schools, as well as the development of healthy competition between schools in the struggle to improve the quality of education. It should be noted, that in 2019-2021, 287 private schools for 94,696 places were opened in Kazakhstan, 41 of them in Almaty.
According to Alpamys Satybaldin, since 2018, the possibility of placing a state educational order for secondary education in private educational organizations has been legally fixed. The per capita funding methodology defines the per capita standard for private schools.
According to the Methodology, the size of the per capita standard consists of two components:
- operating expenses for the implementation of the state obligatory standard of education (GOSO). For newly commissioned private schools for the current year, the standard averages 532 thousand tenge;
- depreciation costs of the building for each newly introduced student place per year:
• during construction - 96 MCI (294 thousand tenge),
• during reconstruction - 47 MCI (143 thousand tenge).
In addition, the investor retains the right to receive parental fees for providing improved conditions for the child's stay at school. After the expiration of the period of payments from the state, the object remains in the property of the developer. The only condition will be the registration of an encumbrance to change the purpose of the object for a period of 20 years.