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Contact us:

UNDP

Representative

Office in Uzbekistan

Country Office

4, Shevchenko Str.

Tashkent, 100029

Uzbekistan

Tel: [phone]

(998 71) 120-6167

Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

www.undp.uz

Contact us:

UNDP

Representative

Office in Uzbekistan

Country Office

4, Shevchenko Str.

Tashkent, 100029

Uzbekistan

Tel: [phone]

(998 71) 120-6167

Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

www.undp.uz

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Uzbekistan's aspiration to integrate into the modern industrial world

has called for the creation of a system of higher education that can quickly

adjust to rapidly changing demands of a labour market. It has become

necessary to boost competition that creates incentives for developing higher

education institutions and also for them to provide high quality educational

services.

In 1997, the National Vocational Training Program (NVTP) was

adopted, which has determined the major directions for, and stages of

reforms in all spheres of education including higher education. However, to

date, extensive government regulation of higher education and lack of

competition have seriously impeded the creation of effective incentives and

mechanisms that would strengthen the education potential of the higher

education

institutions.

This

prevents

educational

institutions

from

sufficiently, promptly and flexibly responding to labour market demands.

This Policy Brief provides a rationale for the need to mobilize new

sources of funding and considers issues of expanding the autonomy of

higher education institutions and competition development. At the same

time, measures are suggested to eliminate some legal constraints that

restrict

the

creation

of

private

institutions

of

higher

education;

recommendations are provided with the aim of reforming the enrollment

mechanism of higher education institutions and expanding the competences

of higher education institutions.

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