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Yesterday the last bell denoting the end of 2006-2007 school year was heard in all secondary schools of Uzbekistan and snow-white bows, multicolored ribbons and noisily ringing little bells were the most popular accessories in the streets and parks of Uzbek cities.
This year half of a million of former students of Uzbekistan have entered, as it used to say, adult's life. Really many representatives of this generation have been in this adult's life for a long time because modern children are more developed than their ancestors used to be. Experts comment that a new generation whose representatives make their future aims and know how to achieve them and surely look at their tomorrow appeared in independent Uzbekistan. This mood is based on the intensive activity of government in developing the education that has turned into a purposeful, systemic and step-by-step policy since early days of independence. It is well-known that from early 1990's Uzbekistan began major reformation of not particular sections of educational system but its transformation in whole, changing its principles cardinally in the country. As a result, the world community recognized the efficiency of Uzbek educational reforms and called the new educational system the model of President Islam Karimov who is the author of the National Program on Personnel Training.
The Conception of the National Program on Personnel Training states that a school is a core of compulsory twelve-year education (nine-year school education and three-year studies in academic lyceums and professional colleges). The primary task in this stage was to establish the qualitatively single educational zone on the territory of Uzbekistan. An open education is an opportunity of access to various educational resources of single quality from any part of the country and opportunity of structuring individual training trajectory, at the same time, basing on the important principle of open education, opportunity of choice.
According to the Uzbek Ministry of Public Education, there are 9773 secondary schools in the country where the instruction languages are Uzbek, Karakalpak, Russian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Turkmen. This year around 580 thousand boys and girls will obtain certificate of basic education (nine-year school education), and over 200 thousand students certificate of secondary education.
The nine-year school leavers have a wide range of courses of further education. If one intends to continue their education in a higher educational establishment, it would be preferable for them to enter academic lyceums, note specialists of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education. Here much attention is paid to profound learning of disciplines. For instance, a physical and mathematical courses include such subjects as physics, mathematics and native language, i.e. the three subjects which students have to pass on exams while entering a technical department. The academic lyceums of the country have five educational courses.
The Uzbek professional colleges basically focus on occupational education. There students get an occupation and simultaneously up to three concomitant specialties. At present, colleges of Uzbekistan are specialized in 340 professions and 800 specialties. As a result, all graduates of secondary special and professional establishments aside with eleventh form leavers are provided with an opportunity to pass entrance exams in the higher educational institutions. By the way, eleventh form leavers may also get an occupation in colleges studying one-year course. Totally this year 99 academic lyceums, 956 colleges and 66 higher educational establishments are open for graduates.
Today the Uzbek graduates are celebrating their holiday but an examination time is still ahead. School always remains a starting place of future aspirations for those who say today "Good- bye!" to their teachers and classmates.
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Date: May 28, 2007
Source: Uzbekistan Today |
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