A case study: insights from the public education system of uzbekistan

Official school ages by the level of education 
 
 
 
 
 
Table 2
 
Source: Authoring 
 

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Academic Research in Educational Sciences 
Volume 3 | Issue 8 | 2022 
ISSN: 2181-1385 
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Private schools are forbidden as a result of a government crackdown on the 
establishment of Islamic fundamentalist (Wahhabi) schools. However, in 1999 the 
government-supported Tashkent Islamic University was founded for the teaching of 
Islam (World Bank Group, 2018). Among higher educational institutions, the highest-
rated at the domestic level are Tashkent Financial Institute and Westminster 
International University in Tashkent. The first one was established by the initiative of 
the first president of Uzbekistan in 1991. Later in 2002, in collaboration with the 
University of Westminster (UK) and the “UMID” Foundation of the President of the 
Republic of Uzbekistan (Izvorski et al., 2019).
According to official sources, about 60 percent of Uzbekistan's population is 
covered under the system of education. The earlier educational system required 11 
years of compulsory schooling for both men and women (ADB, 2010). In 1992 the 
policy decision was made to change from 11 to 9 years of compulsory education. 
After nine years of compulsory schooling, students can prepare for higher education 
in the tenth or eleventh grade or turn to vocational training (The World Bank, 2015). 
After graduating from any type of secondary education, an individual can enter a 
higher education institution to obtain a bachelor's degree and continue studying 
toward a master's or doctoral degree (ADB, 2012).