In Uzbekistan, certain certificates that are paid to educators with a surcharge have been removed from the list

In Uzbekistan, during the 2023/2024 academic year, a list of certificates was approved, which will pay 50 and 20 percent surcharges to educators of secondary schools. Some international certificates were removed from this list.

The Ministry of preschool and School Education issued a statement on the situation. According to him, as a result of a study of certificates issued by Authorized Organizations from the list, the following were identified: 

when issuing certificates, online control is not properly established, that is, there are cases when instead of one person, another enters and surrenders;
the inability to determine the validity of some certificates;
the inability to determine the identity of the test taker when checking the validity of the certificates;
constant repetition of test questions, when not fully meeting the requirements of information security in Test tests for the issuance of certain certificates.
Nevertheless, it was established that the holders of the deregistered certificate would be paid a surcharge for the certificates they received by August 1 until the deadline for the certificate to be finalized. At the same time, in accordance with the current regulatory legal acts, APTIS for teachers, Linguaskill certificates are being used in recruitment processes for newly recruited applicants.

In September 2021, Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced during a meeting with farghana voters that he would not stop until his teachers ' salary reached $ 1,000. In November 2020, at a meeting with teachers and doctors, the president announced ambitious plans to increase their salary.

“The teacher should not come to work if he does not receive $ 1,000. The same situation with the doctor. If the doctor does not receive $ 1,000, How Will He feed his children and grandchildren tomorrow?"the president said. It was then that Shavkat Mirziyoyev criticized the fact that many were unhappy with the quality of medical services in the country.

Number of educators in Uzbekistan

According to the statistical agency, in the academic year 2022/2023, the number of educators (without seats) teaching in secondary institutions in the Republic was 521.6 thousand. Male educators made up 159.9 thousand of these, or 30.7 percent of the total educators.

In the 2022/2023 academic year, compared to the 2018/2019 academic year, the number of male educators increased by 27.8 thousand individuals, or 21.0 percent. Samarkand and Kashkadarya regions have a large number of male educators teaching in schools.