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those societies that are learning continuously are innovative and successful in global 

competition. 

 

Relevance for Uzbekistan  

As a full member of the UN Uzbekistan committed itself to the implementation of SDGs and 

has  already  taken  some  steps  on  localization/adaptation  of  internationally  agreed  target 

indiacators.  

In  2017,  the  Decree  of  the  President  of  the  Republic  of  Uzbekistan  set  an  action  plan 

(“Development Strategy”) for five priorities of the country’s development in the period 2017-

2021, one of which is a social dimension including the education and science reform:  

  To continue the course of further improvement of the continuous education system, 

improvement of accessibility of high quality education services, training of well-qualified 

human resources in accordance with modern labour market demands; 

  To  undertake  targeted  measures  to  improve  facilities  and  resources  of  educational 

institutions through their construction, reconstruction and complete repair, provision of 

modern learning and laboratory equipment, computers, textbooks; 

  Expansion  of  a  network  of  pre-school  educational  institutions  and  fundamental 

improvement  of  conditions  in  these  institutions  for  a  comprehensive  intellectual, 

aesthetical  and  physical  development  of  children,  to  ensure  accessibility  and 

substantial expansion of coverage of children with pre-school education, to increase 

the level of pedagogues and specialists professionalism; 

  Radical  improvement  of  quality  of  general  secondary  education,  in-depth  foreign 

language  learning,  IT,  other  crucial  and  popular  subjects  including  math,  physics, 

chemistry and biology; 

  Construction and reconstruction of existing sport facilities for children and children’s 

music and art schools to attract children to mass sport and draw their attention to the 

world of music and art; 

  To  improve  works  on  training  and  employment  of  vocational  college  students  in 

accordance  with  occupations  that  meet  the  requirements  of  economy  and  needs  of 

employers;  

  To improve quality and effectiveness of higher education institutions activity through 

the introduction of international standards of learning and teaching quality assessment, 

to gradually increase a quota for admission to higher education institutions; 

  To  encourage  scientific  research  and  innovative  activities,  to  create  effective 

mechanisms to put scientific and innovative achievements into practice, to establish 

specialized science and testing laboratories, hi-tech centres and science parks under 

universities and research institutes.  

 

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Uzbekistan government considers the action plan as a “road map” for implementation of SDGs 

in Uzbekistan.

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The  document  uses  a  term  “continuous  education”  which  in  many  post-soviet  countries  is 

regarded  as  a  synonym  to  the  term  “lifelong  learning”.  However,  there  is  a  fundamental 

difference  between  these  two  terms,  as  LLL  has  a  wider  meaning  and  includes  different 

dimensions of learning stemming from the four pillars of education in the future

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