General secondary education
Learn what we do for General secondary education
We support the Ministry of Preschool and School Education in the development and delivery of a competency-based, gender-responsive and inclusive curriculum. It is supported by quality teaching-learning materials and comprehensive learning assessment systems.
- More than two million students have benefited from the new textbooks and teaching-learning materials in math, mother language, and science introduced in grades 1-3 and 6, while over 60,000 teachers (almost 10 percent of all teachers) were trained on the implementation of new curriculum.
- UNICEF provided technical support to the Republican Scientific and Methodological Center for the Development of Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Ministry of Preschool and School Education in the development of the Requirements of Education Standards which are enabling competency-based education reform with focus on digital learning, climate resilience, socio-emotional learning for gender transformative and inclusive education. The requirements were reviewed and endorsed within the framework of the Local Education Group (LEG) and approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 157 dated March 27, 2024 “On measures to improve the development and implementation of state educational standards and state educational requirements”.
- The national education system benefited from the UNICEF’s support in developing the first ever competency-based teacher professional standards that were operationalized at the national level through face-to-face and online training programmes.
- UNICEF supports education digital transformation through improvement of school connectivity, introduction of innovations and digital solutions for learning purposes.
- Under the Giga initiative, UNICEF supported the Ministry of Preschool and School Education to map the location, ICT infrastructure as well as to track the quality and speed of the internet across all state schools in Uzbekistan. This contributes to the improvement of efficiency of the Government resource allocation in connectivity and enhance accountability of schools on internet use.
- An innovative public-private partnership model was launched, enabling schools to be hubs to redistribute high-speed internet to households, businesses and other institutions around school catchment areas.
- It is estimated that each dollar invested will generate three dollars for the education sector.
Currently UNICEF is providing technical support to the Republican Scientific and Methodological Center through extensive capacity building interventions to design overall methodology for preschool and school curriculum development with a focus on cross-cutting skills and competencies and inter/intra subject connectivity. Cross-cutting skills and competencies will include 21st century skills with a focus on gender responsive curriculum, socio-emotional learning, formation of life skills, along with introduction of new climate resilience and green competencies.
In 2025–2028, under a grant from the Islamic Development Bank and the Global Partnership for Education, UNICEF will support the development of new educational standards, curricula, textbooks, and teaching and methodological materials for comprehensive schools with a focus on developing competencies that are in demand in the labor market, at the level of requirements for admission to prestigious foreign universities.