Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- In Uzbekistan, it is proposed to make changes to the procedure for transferring students from class to class and from one school to another, stipulating the mandatory application of parents to the school principle with an application when traveling with their child abroad. This application must contain information about the reasons and duration of stay abroad, such as medical treatment, travel, short-term training or other purposes.

The Ministry of Preschool and School Education of Uzbekistan published for discussion draft amendments to the order on the procedure for transferring students from class to class and from one school to another.

In accordance with the proposed changes, parents will have to contact the school principal with such a statement during the school year.

The school principle, in turn, will be required to consider the application within one working day and accept an order to notify the class teacher and subject teachers about the student’s temporary departure abroad.

If students travel abroad without notifying the school administration, the principle will be obliged to notify in writing the student’s parents, as well as the chairman of the makhalla, the district or city department of preschool and school education, as well as the district (city) commission on children’s issues and take measures to attract the student to classes .

In the event that students who have traveled abroad do not attend classes and do not report this to the school within one week, they will also be subject to similar measures.

Every year, before 25 May, school principles will submit to the territorial commissions on children’s issues information about students who, without notifying the school, went abroad and did not attend classes continuously for at least three months. It is planned to exclude such schoolchildren from the list of students with the consent of the territorial commission.

According to the Ministry, these proposals were developed on the basis of instructions issued at a meeting with the President on January 26 to improve the quality of teaching in educational institutions and the regulations on general secondary education, approved by government resolution from 15 March  2017. They are aimed at creating conditions for effective work with students who travel abroad without warning or do not return to school after a temporary departure, and also regularly do not attend classes without good reason.

According to the Ministry of Preschool and School Education, to date, 9,745 students have traveled abroad without warning the school or regularly do not attend school without good reason.