Seeking Knowledge in Bukhoro
10.05.2010
80 professional colleges and 8 academic lyceums are currently functioning in Bukhoro region. Last year the region entered the number of areas that cover all hundred percent of school graduates with the secondary special professional education. Meanwhile, many boys and girls from different regions study in colleges and lyceums of the region. They explain their choice in favor of Bukhoro education institutions by strong pedagogy school and high training quality. Traditionally the graduates of Bukhoro education institutions rate among the first university entrants.
Clear-cut Priorities and Goals
Despite the high rating, the region authorities do all their best not to stop at what has been accomplished and raise the education quality to the higher level.
“We are currently working on raising the effectiveness of material and technical base usage in education institutions, development of cooperation between professional colleges, academic lyceums and universities as well as upgrade of the purposeful training of students for the professional activity or university entrance,” emphasized Nusrat Sharipov, chief of the regional administration for secondary special and professional education.
What are the main activities for the further raise of effectiveness of material and technical base usage?
I’d like to note much work that has been done in this line. If you walk along education institutions after tuition you will see no empty classrooms. Students of academic lyceums attend supplementary classes on entrance exams training, various circles. Children come to masters to acquire some additional skills in professional colleges. We work on raising the effectiveness of such training. Together with the colleges’ administration we negotiate on the establishment of manufacture workshops rendering real services to the population by means of training equipment. The training practice quality is supposed to rise in such workshops: a student is inspired to acquire new knowledge and skills by the demand in his work.
What do you expect from the development of cooperation between lyceums, colleges and universities?
First of all, it is to attract the university teaching staff to the solution of problems with raising the training quality in colleges and lyceums. It is notable that we have optimal conditions for that. Over a hundred of departments of the Bukhoro State University, Light and Food Industry Technological Institute and Medical Institute have been opened under colleges and lyceums. They favor the development of the mutually beneficial cooperation between universities and secondary special education institutions. Particularly, these departments empower us not only to attract university teachers to conduct classes for our students but also to make new learning aids for them. The Bukhoro Light and Food Industry Technological Institute is the country’s leader in this area of activity, for today its specialists have already prepared over a hundred textbooks for lyceums and colleges.
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As regards of academic lyceums, they conduct trainings aimed at perfecting the skills of students for the university entrance examinations. The professional colleges continue developing their collaboration with employers. Thanks to this activity employers meet with students not in the third course but starting from the first year of study in many our colleges. For example, representatives of the tourism business not only arrange conditions for practical training of our students but also take an active part in assessing their knowledge level. We have been assigning a special part to training young people for starting their own business of late and this has brought some concrete results. Thus, last year two graduates of the Qorakul Professional Transport and Industry College started their own business. This year the some students of our college also express their wiil to follow them.
Come Together
The academic lyceum ¹3 under the Bukhoro State University admitted its first students in the academic year 2009-2010. It is among those few education institutions that happened to start their work from a competition among applicants. Nowadays boys and girls from other regions and Tashkent city study at the lyceum in Qorako’l district – in the backwoods. The lyceum students share their thoughts on their choice.
“Like any other lyceum students, I dream of studying at a prestigious university,” says Davron Olimjonov from Zarafshon, Navoi. “I think my dream will come true because highly qualified, taxing teachers and attentive educators work at our school. There are all conveniences here for acquiring profound knowledge and independent self-improvement.”
“I came here to study and get prepared for an institute,” the Tashkent resident Sukhrob Umarov shared his plans. “I’ve chosen this lyceum since Qorako’l district is renowned for its strong teaching and learning techniques. 43 students from this district have represented our nation in international competitions in mathematics since 1991. 23 of them returned home with medals of various levels, while the rest of them were awarded letters of commendation”.
Professionals for Hydrocarbon Industry
The Bukhoro Professional Oil and Gas Industry College is popular far beyond the Bukhoro residents. Boys and girls from Samarqand, Navoi, Qashkadaryo, Khorazm regions and Karakalpakstan study there. Its director Aziz Adizov told about the activity of the institution in detail:
“Our college is one of the oldest education institutions in the republic specializing in training specialists for the NHC Uzbekneftegas’s enterprises. We do our best to train high class specialists taking into consideration the forecast on the sector’s development. Thus, for instance, we are currently training specialists for the Kandim gas deposit to be launched in 2012. I should mention that this will be the first complex in Uzbekistan for extraction and processing the high-sulfur natural gas.
Our intentions are supported by the enterprises we train the specialists for. This support strengthens our material and technical base, we receive many new books on the oil and gas extraction and processing, published both in Uzbekistan and abroad. We arranged all conditions to provide our students with the theoretical and practical training directly in the manufacture.
Upon the college graduation the graduates get employed successfully. Oil and gas industry workers trust us with training their children and this is the proof for quality tuition. Boys and girls having their relatives employed in the sector comprise almost a half of all our students.
Northernmost College
The Alat Agricultural Professional College is the most northern education institution in the Bukhoro region. It reckons among the biggest region and republic’s colleges and educated over 1050 students at a time.
The study at this college is prestigious for Alat discrict young people since it is oriented on training personnel for agricultural sector which is the basis of the district’s economy. Using the latest facilities they teach future agronomists, veterinarians, livestock breeders, maintenance engineers for agrarian sector, agricultural production processing, seamstresses and accountants. The specialties are quite different and therefore the college facilities are diverse: there is equipment for both food growing, its processing and preparation for sale.
“High quality in professional education can be achieved when a student can study the subject, practice it and see the outcome of his work, the customer’s assessment of his proficiency,” comments Bobonazar Itolmasov, director of the professional college.
“The construction of the green house for growing fruits and vegetables in winter period is among the main activities within the college development,” he continues. “We have already bought all necessary building materials. Upon the completion of the building we will be able to demonstrate our students the procedure of growing crops in the greenhouse conditions. This is very important because this is currently a sector’s priority direction.”