Evolving Uzbekistan’s system to get learners ready for the future
Cambridge is working with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) and UNICEF to develop the curriculum for students in schools across the nation.
The vision – Uzbekistan 2030: equitable access to education for all
Education reform is an essential part of the Uzbekistan 2030 Strategy, which aims to lift the country to upper-middle-income status. The strategy emphasises access to quality, inclusive education that prepares students for lifelong learning and employability. The government’s goals spanned pre-school to higher education, including significant curriculum updates, teacher professional development and improving specialist training.
The action
Together with Uzbek leaders and UNICEF, we are:
- redeveloping the national curriculum, informed by running workshops with subject specialists and embedding key cross-cutting themes such as climate education, social-emotional learning and digital literacy
- developing robust formative and summative learning assessment systems so teachers can track progress, give timely feedback and support every learner
- connecting curriculum, teaching and learning, and assessment so they build logically from step to step.
This curriculum reform is part of the SmartEd Project. The project is funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Arab Coordination Group (AGC), the Global Partnership on Education (GPE), and implemented jointly by MOPSE and UNICEF together with Cambridge.
By the end of the project, we will have:
- improved education quality for 8.8 million learners from pre-primary to Grade 11 (ages 3 to 18)
- updated over 25 subjects, including embedding climate and social-emotional learning.
“Uzbekistan’s education reform is about creating a quality, reliable, inclusive, and modern education system for the new generation. In improving curricula, special attention is paid to the principles of competency-based education, gender equality, inclusion, socio-emotional education, as well as climate change and environmental responsibility, and the development of technological and digital literacy.”
Dilshoda Norbaeva, a.i. Director of Republican Education Center
“A modernized curriculum should strengthen foundational skills such as literacy, numeracy, and socio-emotional competencies, these are essential building blocks for all future learning,“ said UNICEF Representative Ms. Regina Castillo. “At the same time, we hope that the reform will integrate 21st-century skills—critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, digital literacy, and collaboration—that are increasingly necessary for success in a rapidly changing world.”
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