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Answer» What is Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools mean? The Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (NIS) is a network of schools for exceptional students of age 5 to 18 throughout Kazakhstan. The schools are named after Nursultan Nazarbayev, former president of Kazakhstan, who has promoted the idea as a means of developing the intellectual life of the country. Previously, each school focused primarily on a specific set of subjects: either physical sciences and mathematics, or chemical and biological sciences, as well as foreign languages. Although this division is still represented in the names of schools, most schools share the same curriculum based on Cambridge O Level and A Level, except for NIS IB in Nur-Sultan. Instruction is trilingual, in Kazakh, Russian and English, shifting to exclusively English by the junior year. reference
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