President signed a decree on November 10 setting out national programs aimed at enhancing human dignity, with education and digital skills at the center.
The decree, titled “On measures to implement national programs aimed at enhancing human dignity,” sets the main areas of a national program to turn knowledge and skills into the core capital of development.
Among its goals, the decree calls for full coverage of 6-year-olds with school preparation groups, and for all general education schools to be gradually brought into international assessment programs. It also calls for implementing international education standards in technical colleges and training young people for high-income professions.
The decree aims to get at least 10 higher education institutions into the top 1,000 of prestigious international rankings, a target set for 2030. It also seeks to engage 10 million young people in the digital industry and the professions of the future.
Other measures include keeping existing incentives for setting up private preschool institutions and evaluating their effectiveness, and strengthening the status of the Uzbek language as a language of science and technology in the digital environment.
According to the decree’s annex, the goal of reaching 100% coverage of 6-year-olds with one year of compulsory school preparation is to be achieved in 2027.
Under the Education Law, one year of preparation for general secondary education is compulsory for children aged 6 to 7. The preparation takes place in kindergartens, as part of the preschool education system.
