Shavkat Mirziyoyev: Our fathers and mothers created this culture, putting a particle of their soul into it

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) – President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the Oltin Ipak Karvonsaroyi tourist center in the city of Margilan.

The atmosphere and life of ancient Uzbek houses are created here. On the ground floor of the complex there are workshops for carpet weaving, embroidery, copper crafts and others. Tourists can closely observe the process of manufacturing national products, as well as purchase them.

On the second floor there is a caravanserai in a traditional style for 30 people. In the future, the complex will serve more than 10,000 tourists a year.

The head of state thanked the artisans for the continuation of folk crafts and the attention paid to the education of young people.

“In the current age of high technology, you miss such simple, soulful places,” said Shavkat Mirziyoyev. – Our fathers and mothers created these crafts, this culture, investing not only labor, but also a part of their soul. At one time, crafts were on the verge of extinction. Thank you for keeping them. It is necessary not only to promote our culture among foreign guests, but also to introduce our children to it.

The President supported the proposal of the craftsmen to teach folk crafts in schools. Responsible persons were given recommendations on increasing the tourism potential, the effective use of cinema to promote it.

Last year, the city of Margilan received the status of the "World City of Masters" for silk and ikat. The cities of Bukhara (for gold embroidery) and Kokand (for wood carving) received the same status. According to a representative of the CIS Executive Committee, this year it is planned to submit a draft decision on the basic organization for the training and retraining of journalistic frames. In addition, at the level of working groups, drafts of the Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Documents on Academic Degrees and the Concept for Ensuring the Quality of Vocational Education in the Commonwealth Member States are being developed.

It was noted that since 2010 congresses of teachers and educators of the Commonwealth countries have been held on a regular basis. The next, eighth in a row, congress will be held in 2024 in Armenia.

A successful innovative form of interuniversity cooperation is the CIS Network University project. It consists of 46 leading universities from 9 Commonwealth countries. Highly qualified specialists are being trained in 35 areas of the master’s program; thanks to the project, 1339 undergraduates were trained in the period from 2010 to 2022.

The development of inclusive education continues, including for children with disabilities. The working group of the Council developed and applies Recommendations in the field of psychological, pedagogical and organizational support for inclusive education in the Commonwealth countries. In 2018, the status of the basic organization for the training of teachers and specialists in the field of inclusive education was assigned to the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank.

“Numerous events organized by the sectoral Council, ministries of education / enlightenment (and science) and basic organizations of the CIS member states receive information support from the CIS Executive Committee. The ongoing work is constantly covered on the Internet resources of the Commonwealth,” added Galina Kazak.

The conference participants discussed issues related to the trends in the development of the education system, external and internal quality assurance of education, as well as methods and tools for managing this indicator.

By the beginning of the forum, a collection of materials “Ensuring the quality of education: state, problems and prospects” was published, the presentation of which took place at the plenary session of the conference.