Tenth grades to be added at Uzbek secondary schools, standard uniform to be designed for students
TASHKENT. Aug 18 (Interfax) - Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev heard reports on the progress of implementing instructions on a drastic reform of secondary, special secondary and professional education system, domestic media reported on Friday.
The head of state received Minister of Higher and Special Secondary Education Inomzhon Mazhidov, director of the Center of Special Secondary and Professional Education Murodullo Kholmukhamedov, Education Minister Ulugbek Inoyatov and their deputies.
Nine-year secondary education has been in effect in the republic up to the present, after which graduates continue studies at professional colleges and lyceums.
According to the task assigned, efforts are being made to organize further learning for ninth-grade secondary school graduates in tenth grades, if they so wish, participants in the meeting said.
According to the curriculum, it was determined that tenth-grade students will learn general subjects five days a week and subjects related to their profession once a week.
Some 22,000 teachers are needed because of establishment of tenth grade at schools, the head of state said. According to the plans, 9,500 of them will be graduates of higher educational establishments, 13,000 will be teachers of lyceums and colleges.
The president also urged the introduction of school uniform at educational establishments. "Parents usually try to prepare them. But they [uniforms] are different in terms of quality and shape. We need common and quality standards. This makes them [students] disciplined and provides equal conditions for students," Mirziyoyev said.
At the meeting, the head of state defined tasks with respect to cardinal structural reform of the pre-school education system, organization of its management structure, elaboration of a separate program aimed at all children's attendance in these educational establishments and provision of a number of benefits to primary educational establishments.