According to the presidential press service, in order to effectively fulfill all tasks, higher educational institutions will be empowered to independently make academic and organizational and managerial decisions.
“That is, from now on, decisions on the introduction of curricula, plans and literature, determining the workload of teachers and forms of education will be made by the governing council of the university itself. Now the activities of each department will be assessed according to its scientific potential and indicators of youth participation in scientific activities, ”the statement says.
Academic supervisors who regularly publish articles in prestigious foreign publications, as well as students who defend their scientific work in a timely manner and with high quality, will be given the right to accept up to 5 doctoral students and up to 3 independent applicants. The practice of sending one young scientist from each department for internship abroad will also be established.
Particular attention is paid to the issue of the scientific potential of higher educational institutions.
As international practice shows, the university is considered prestigious if its scientific potential is at least 70 percent. In Uzbekistan, this figure is very low. Thus, the scientific potential of 24 universities does not even reach 25 percent, while 19 universities do not have a single professor or doctor of science. Over the past 30 years, only 208 professors and teachers have received degrees abroad. Therefore, the president ordered from next year to double the number of quotas for doctoral studies, and in subsequent years to increase them by 50 percent annually.
For these purposes, an additional 100 billion soums will be allocated annually from the budget. In addition, each industry will allocate another 10 billion soums for doctoral studies for universities in the relevant specialties.