A meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was held on August 6 at the 14th comprehensive school in Uchtepa district of Tashkent.

During the meeting, Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Public Education, Daniel Rosenblum, US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uzbekistan, and Mikaela Meredith, USAID Country Director for Uzbekistan, spoke about cooperation in improving the quality of education.

In particular, a grant agreement worth $ 50 million was signed with USAID in September 2019, and projects worth $ 19.5 million are currently being implemented to implement this grant agreement. Today, an additional agreement was signed to develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills in students.

Under the agreement, an additional $ 5.5 million in grants will be provided to the public education system. These funds will be used to develop entrepreneurial and business skills in students in grades 8-11.

During the meeting, the US Ambassador presented to the Ministry of Public Education English for grades 1-11, for grades 5-11, adapted to the national curriculum in Uzbekistan, published by the Cambridge University Press in the amount of 10 million US dollars under the Education for Harmony Program. Foreign textbooks and manuals on ICT were handed over.

These textbooks will be piloted in more than 200 secondary schools in the Syrdarya and Namangan regions in the 2021-2022 academic year. Then, starting from the 2022-2023 academic year, it is planned to be implemented nationwide.

Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Public Education, thanked the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Uzbekistan and USAID for their cooperation in providing quality English and ICT education in Uzbek schools.

At the end of the event, media representatives held a press conference on the project, and questions were answered in detail by the Minister of Public Education and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Uzbekistan.

Afterwards, all the guests were introduced to the activities of School No. 14 and its clubs.

It should be noted that the school was built and commissioned in 1984, and before the overhaul in the 2019-2020 academic year, the school building was in a state of disrepair and the quality of education was low, with a coefficient of 0.4 (476 students).

Formerly in a state of disrepair, the school has now been overhauled and equipped in accordance with modern requirements. As a result, residents around the school no longer had to go to school in other areas with difficulty.