This year, more than 215,000 school certificates have been digitised

One of the main steps in this direction is the introduction of digital certificates. This was announced by Lira Samykbaeva, Deputy Minister of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic for Digitalisation.

Currently, digital certificates are being actively developed not only for 2025 graduates, but also for the digitisation of certificate archives dating back to 2000. This is being done by the schools themselves, which have preserved their paper archives.

Particular attention is being paid to the accurate identification of data, using a new service that allows graduates' personal identification numbers to be found by surname and date of birth. Previously, this information was simply not included in certificates, but now it can be used to generate a digital version of the document in the ‘Digital Documents’ section of the Tunduk app.

Since last year, schools have been entering graduate data directly into the electronic system, and digital certificates are then generated based on this data in the Tunduk mobile app.

This year's figures are record-breaking: more than 215,000 digital certificates, 12,000 more than last year. Of these, about 135,000 are for ninth-graders and more than 80,000 are for eleventh-graders.

The work is being carried out in close cooperation with the Uchkun printing house, where mass printing has already begun. All certificates will be ready and issued by the end of June this year. The paper versions are supplemented by digital ones — they are now completely identical, because the data comes directly from the system, where the grades, including exam results, are already available.

The system for restoring certificates has also changed. Previously, if a document was lost, the graduate had to contact the ministry, which sent requests to the district administrations, which in turn sent them to the schools. This took six months, and sometimes even longer. Today, everything is much simpler: if a digital certificate is already in the database, the Uchkun printing house simply prints a duplicate with the appropriate mark upon request.
All digital documents, including certificates, are recognised as official throughout the republic. This means that they can be presented when applying to universities, government agencies and other institutions. A paper document is only required for those who continue their studies abroad — but even in these cases, preparing a duplicate now takes minimal time. 

Each digital certificate contains a unique QR code, which any university or government agency can use to verify the authenticity of the document online. This provides additional protection against forgery and errors.