On Education
Article 1. Purpose of this Law
This Law aims to regulate relations within the field of education.
Article 2. Education Legislation
The legislation on education comprises this Law and other related legislative acts.
If an international treaty to which the Republic of Uzbekistan is a party establishes rules differing from those in the national education legislation, the provisions of the international treaty shall prevail.
Article 3. Key Definitions
The following terms are defined and used in this Law:
State Accreditation
The process by which the state recognizes that the activities of state and non-state educational institutions comply with state educational standards, requirements, and curricula, granting them the right to issue official educational documents to graduates.
State Educational Institution
An institution established by public authorities using state-owned property, providing education in accordance with state standards and requirements.
State Educational Standards
A set of state-mandated requirements regarding the content and quality of education.
State Educational Requirements
Mandatory criteria concerning the structure, content, and conditions of education, as well as the physical, personal, intellectual, scientific, and professional qualities expected of students.
Qualification
The level of knowledge, skills, and competencies that demonstrate a person’s readiness to perform a specific professional activity, confirmed by an official educational document.
Specialty
The name of a particular professional training program that results in the awarding of a qualification.
Non-State Educational Organization
A legal entity licensed to provide educational services in compliance with state standards, requirements, and curricula.
Upbringing
A systematic process aimed at the comprehensive development of youth, based on targeted socio-historical experience, fostering consciousness, spiritual and moral values, and worldview.
Education
A systematic process designed to provide students with deep theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and the development of general educational and professional competencies.
Educational Campus
An environment that supports effective education and upbringing, including a complex of buildings such as educational facilities, research centers, production complexes, technoparks, dormitories, laboratories, libraries, sports facilities, and catering services, all located within a unified territory.
Participants in the Educational and Upbringing Process
Students, their parents or legal representatives, teaching staff, and their representatives.
Certification of Educational Organizations
The primary form of state oversight assessing the performance of educational institutions and determining the content, level, and quality of specialist training according to state standards and curricula.
Article 4. Fundamental Principles of Education
The main principles guiding education include:
- Recognition of education as a priority;
- Freedom to choose the form of education;
- Prohibition of discrimination in education;
- Ensuring equal educational opportunities;
- Integration of national and universal values in education and upbringing;
- Humanistic and democratic nature of education;
- Continuity of education;
- Mandatory eleven-year education plus one year of preparatory education for children aged six to seven;
- Universal access to education within state standards and requirements;
- Consistent and differentiated approaches to educational program selection;
- Lifelong learning;
- Social protection guarantees for teachers;
- Secular education system;
- Encouragement of education, aptitude, and talent;
- Combination of state and public administration in education;
- Openness and transparency in educational activities.
Article 5. Right to Education
Everyone is guaranteed equal rights to education regardless of gender, race, nationality, language, religion, social origin, beliefs, or personal and social status.
The right to education is ensured through:
- Development of educational institutions;
- Support for innovation and implementation of educational programs using modern technologies;
- Organization of full-time, part-time, evening, distance, and other forms of education;
- Training, retraining, and professional development of specialists;
- Provision of free general secondary, secondary specialized, and initial vocational education;
- Certification rights for citizens educated at home or self-taught, and for those without general secondary education, through accredited state institutions.
Foreign citizens have the right to education in Uzbekistan in accordance with international treaties and national legislation.
Stateless persons permanently residing in Uzbekistan enjoy equal educational rights as citizens of the Republic.
