Some 26 colleges in Uzbekistan to change their specialization

The Government of Uzbekistan issued a resolution “On admission to secondary special, professional educational establishments of Uzbekistan in 2013/2014 academic year” on 16 May 2013.

In line with the document, some 26 professional colleges in Uzbekistan will change their specialization. The decision was adopted in the result of studying demands of enterprises and organizations for specialists.

According to the resolution, some 533,658 people will graduate ninth classes of the general schools in 2013 and all of them will enrol to secondary special and professional education establishments.

At the same time, about 499,341 graduates will be accepted to professional colleges and 34,317 to academic lyceums.

The resolution underlined that currently there are 143 academic lyceums and 1,411 professional colleges in Uzbekistan. At the same time, the colleges have 25 branches.