Sector Assistance Program Evaluation on Education in Uzbekistan

Curriculum development and education quality monitoring
. Curriculum modules have been revised 
to incorporate a child-centered teaching approach. Students are being prepared to take tests for the 
international benchmarking of learning outcomes in 2010. Likewise, the vocational curriculum was revised 
in senior secondary education (SSE).
Teacher education
. The delivery of teacher training has been decentralized to increase access and 
reduce cost to teachers, and to improve the quality of rural teachers, organizational audit and staff 
redeployment. The policy loan helped the government revise the functions and responsibilities of 
administrative and managerial staff within Ministry of Public Education and Ministry of Higher and 
Secondary Specialized Education, at the central, regional, and district levels. It has also helped improve 
service conditions of teachers.
Rationalization of facilities
. Nationwide school and community surveys covering both basic education 
and SSE were carried out to assess the condition of education establishments and their environment, and 
to give recommendations for improving efficiency in the utilization of physical and human resources. The 
data is available at 
http://eduportal.uz/webmaktab
.
Planning and coordination
. To improve the coordination of education reforms among government 
agencies, the Education Reform Implementation and Monitoring Unit was established.
 
School management and community participation
. Governance and quality of schools have been 
improved through the establishment of school trustee councils (comprising school management, 
teachers, parents, mahalla [community] representatives, and local enterprises, etc.), through the 
strengthening of parent committees, and by encouraging more community involvement in schools.