06.06.2020

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has visited the Uzbek-Korean International University in Ferghana.

The institution was created in accordance with the 23 August 2019 resolution of Uzbekistan’s Cabinet of Ministers. Education is provided in Uzbek, Korean and English, on a fee-paying basis and under advanced curricula and syllabi.

The university is designed for 4 thousand students. In this academic year, 720 youths have completed the first level. 11 experienced tutors from South Korea were invited, and in the future the number of Korean instructors is expected to reach 43.

This year, a new block was built for this international educational institution, more than $ 10 million of foreign investment was attracted to this end.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev talked with university rector Park Jun Hoo and Korean teachers. Uzbekistan’s President enquired into the curriculum and the substance of training, student performance.

The institution offers humanitarian and technical-engineering majors. In particular, tourism management, pre-school education, management and computerized accounting, Korean language and literature comprise the social science block. The institution also trains qualified specialists in the field of mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, electrical and electronics, architectural design, computer engineering, energy and chemical engineering.

“In their first years at universities, students are taught general disciplines, repeating by and large the school curriculum,” Shavkat Mirziyoyev complained. “Youths thus miss a year of their life, they even lose interest in learning. Things are different in advanced nations, where specialist disciplines are taken right from the first year of study, and practice and internship are assigned an important block of studies. The difference in the results is shown by life itself.”

In this regard, officials were instructed to review the system of higher education in our country by examining the experience of South Korean universities, and to orient students to the practice component as much as possible.