Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education received the international Coursera Learning Excellence Award at the London FWD event in London. The event brought together education technology platforms Coursera and Udemy and partners from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The award recognized Kazakhstan’s integration of international online learning into higher education, as well as its development of digital competencies and artificial intelligence skills. The country has worked with Coursera since 2022.
According to the ministry, the initiative has given students at Kazakh universities access to thousands of international online courses and professional certification programs. More than 292,000 learners have earned certificates on the platform, with the total number exceeding 682,000.