Keeping up with revolutions: Evolution of higher education in Uzbekistan

Majidov, Toshtemir; Ghosh, Dipak; Ruziev, Kobil

Abstract

Uzbekistan's higher education system has undergone some dramatic changes in the past century, evolving from largely traditional religious colleges to fully state-funded communist-atheist institutions. Since the end of the communist administration and subsequent market-oriented reforms, the institutions of higher education (IHEs) in Uzbekistan have had to reinvent and reform themselves again, as the demand for different kind of education increased. This paper puts the current changes and trends in IHEs into an historical perspective and highlights some important effects of the market reforms on the educational scene. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2009.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Journal: Economic Change and Restructuring
• Print ISSN: 1573-9414
• Electronic ISSN: 1574-0277
• Publisher: Springer (part of Springer Nature)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-63
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-009-9077-5
• Keywords: education, higher, Uzbekistan, transition, reform
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/981597
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10644-009-9077-5