Tashkent hosts the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (WCECCE).

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the conference.

– It is also worth mentioning that in the recent past, the preschool enrollment rate fell to 27%. Almost all preschool institutions lacked modern technologies and manuals, and their facilities were under renovation. This has limited the opportunity of our children to receive full quality education and upbringing.

Whereas, the role and importance of the preschool education system in our social life, which is considered to be the most important link in the upbringing of our children, cannot be measured and overstated.

From the early days of reforms, we have decided to fundamentally modernize the existing education sector, in particular, preschool education. For this purpose, and for the first time in the history of our country, we established a Ministry of Preschool Education.

We place great emphasis on raising kindergartens to a new level according to time requirements, wide application of advanced methods and techniques, and strengthening the educational and material base.

We have created favorable conditions for the entry of the private sector into the extensive development of the industry. The State budget subsidies were also available for each foster child in kindergartens.

In recent years, the number of kindergartens in our country has increased sixfold. Thousands of family kindergartens were established in remote and out-of-way areas. The number of educators and teachers has also increased threefold and reached 160,000. Furthermore, practical work has been undertaken to improve the qualifications of pedagogic personnel

This, in turn, provided an opportunity to increase the number of children receiving education and training in kindergartens from 600 thousand to 2 million, the rate of children’s coverage increased to 70%, – the Head of the state said.

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