As a result of administrative reforms, preschool, public and specialized education have been combined into a single system of preschool and school education.

In more than 10 thousand schools and over 30 thousand kindergartens operating in the system, about 700 thousand teachers and mentors provide education and training to 8.5 million students. On average, 400 thousand students graduate from school annually, of which 170 thousand continue to receive education after school. By the construction of 422 state kindergartens and the opening of more than 21,000 non-state preschool institutions, 1,200,000 places for children have been created over the past five years. The preschool enrollment rate has reached 74 %.

Hundreds of modern schools have been built in recent years. A completely new type of school has been created: Presidential and Art Schools, as well as a network of specialized schools has expanded. New textbooks and teaching manuals have been developed.

Currently, the system has 30,792 preschool educational organizations, 10,160 secondary schools, 14 Presidential schools, 9 creative schools, 182 specialized schools.

Five hundred regional schools have implemented an assessment system in Presidential and specialized schools today. As a result, the share of practical classes such as situation analysis, problem-solving, and teamwork, based on advanced foreign experience, increased to 60 percent. Vocational training in three areas has been established in high grades of 208 schools. The number of school graduates with foreign language certificates has increased from 6 thousand to 18 thousand over the past two years.

A particular attention is being paid to improving the working conditions and qualifications of teachers and tutors. In particular, teachers’ salaries have increased by an average of 2,5 times over the past period.

A salary supplement has been introduced for teachers with national and international certificates in foreign languages, information technology, mathematics, chemistry, and biology, as well as a special payment for teachers who come to work in remote areas. As a result, the number of teachers receiving salaries of between 6 and 10 million Uzbek soums has reached 23,000, and the number of teachers receiving salaries of over 10 million Uzbek soums has exceeded 1,000.

In order to reduce the burden on schools, 800,000 new seats have been created. The number of higher education institutions has exceeded 200, and the coverage has increased from 9% to 38%.

 

As a result of the implementation of the Strategy for Innovative Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2019-2021, great success has been achieved in ensuring and stimulating innovative and technological progress in the sectors of the economy and the social sphere, including agriculture, energy, construction, education, healthcare. In particular:
the republic has risen by 36 positions compared to 2015 in the ranking of the Global Innovation Index, which is assessed by 81 indicators;
the volume of annual funds allocated from the state budget for innovation and scientific spheres increased by 3 times compared to 2018 and reached 1.5 trillion soums;
if in 2018 the number of young scientists was 6.5 thousand, then this figure in 2022 reached 10.8 thousand people, that is, an increase of one and a half times is ensured;
held annually since 2018, the International Week of Innovative Ideas – Innoweek.uz is turning into an innovative technology platform that brings together foreign scientific and innovation centers, investment funds, technology agencies, technology parks and business incubators on the way to one goal.