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The information I am going to share with you may or may not be something new to you, but I feel that I have to tell you about this.
Since its independence in 1991, Uzbekistan has been trying to implement a row of economical and political reforms. Unfortunately, there has not been much success. I am sure that people from this former communist block will have a better understanding of what I am talking about. With economic struggles, which the people of Uzbekistan have witnessed for this last decade, came degradation in many social spheres, including education. Today, even primary education in some regions of Uzbekistan is becoming an unattainable luxury. Parents who usually earn at most 20 or 30 dollars a month cannot afford sending a child to school.
Usually the traditional Uzbek family has many children, ranging from 3 to 10. It is in the mentality of people that the more children they have the more supporters they will have when they get old, or that at least one of the children will succeed in life. So, despite economic frustration and desperation, some families still have many kids and demographic growth is intense. To send a kid to school would cost up to 10 monthly salaries (including winter clothes, shoes, stationery and textbooks, plus some allowance for food).
The situation is not that dire in urban centers, but in many rural places the above description is applicable. The situation in universities is not much better. Students are used to giving bribes when they do not want to study as they forced to do that by corrupted teachers. But we can also understand the teachers’ motivations as they also have to survive on a very low salary. It is very difficult to find a way out from this vicious circle. Many high school graduates cannot go to universities or colleges, as the tuition payment is way too much for them or their parents to afford…
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same in bosnia&herzegovina Nasir Nalic | Sep 5th, 2003
:)
Home schooling Gulnara | Sep 6th, 2003
I think, considering that the generation of present time parents in Uzbekistan went to public school during Soviet times, they can take adventage of it, and home school their children. If we speak about their desperate attempt to educate their children, then this is their solution, to make an input, where the seciety fails, and start the work of educating the children themselves.
Going after Monte Kristo Gulnara | Sep 6th, 2003
Those who rad " Count Monte Kristo", know that one can get educated even while being secludede from the world. Monte Kristo could not read, but he became highly educated men, while being imprisoned in a Castle. He learned all kinds of subjects from the priest, another prisoner. Obviously, they had no beautiful books or any special educating materials at all, yet it was possible to achieve the process of education ( giving and recieving knowledge), because they had a strong will to do so.
In USA it is an option for the families to choose if they want to teach their kids at home by themselves, or let them go to public school, or to private school. I wander if the option of homeschooling exists in Uzbekistan.
Hope for the best Shavkatjon | Sep 13th, 2003
Hi Saiyora,
I am Shavkat a former student from Tajikistan currently living and working as a volunteer in Germany.
After I read your article as you mentioned "you will be understood by someone who is from the post soviet block" I just couldn't help but agree with you in many respect. Thanks for brining other perspective to this issue. I know that even in Uzbekistan and my country too, people are somehow taught to hide or put away the problems by being socially afraid or something has to do with the culture, and that is I beleive somethign that mostly prevents the development one ones to take.
I am currently leading the project called "University for Global Well-Being" in Tajikistan 2005 togeter with my Swedish collegues. If you wanna learn more about it I would like to share with you.
All the best,
Shavkat
Apira | Nov 4th, 2003
I know about this situation althought i have not been in this situation i know what it is like because this is what the people of my land went through, some people still don't have enough money to send their children to education they hardly have any money to feed their whole family mostly because their are usually seven children and plus their parents and their grandparents you can imagine how many people are in the house and how they are suppose to feed everyone.Their are still plenty of people living in the streets without food, and eating wiht the goats. They have to beg people for money just to feed the liitle infant, they barely have any clothes to were, just a bunch of rags!!!
Penny Lyle | Jan 15th, 2004
Hey, is there anyone from Nicaragua on TIG who knows about literacy programs?
Today(Sep 8 2003 - last year, eek!) I overheard this woman who said she had been to nicaragua, and over there they have a literacy program where the students are given a crash course in teaching literacy while they are learning literacy themselves. I do not know much about this, but it sounds a really good idea - if just one child from every traditional uzbekistan family was sent to that training program, they would then be able to teach the rest of their family, and their parents if need be, and could possibly even get a job teaching their neighbours literacy.
small hopes, aimed at a big difference. Ajit | Nov 2nd, 2004
ya I agree with whatever you said , its similar to the situation in my country , India. my parents didnt have much money either , but there is a movement called UWC movement, United World Colleges. I got in , and I got the chace to live with people from 140 nationalities , they gave me 100% scholarship. Organisations like these are few , but are truly admirable. their purpose is to promote International , peace and volunteer work in the world. Many UWc graduates work in schools and do volunteer work. if you want more information go to www.uwc.org and see a good work growing in the world.
Education is Becoming a Luxury Arslanbek | Jul 26th, 2005
yeah I agree with Sayyora. she wrote almost everthing but I just wat't to add that there in our Country the Education is gowing down. As Sayyora told poeple earns 30 40 $ for a month and they can't send their kids to the schools to Universities. well Some kids at the age 13-18 they'll go to work or somewhere else but they don't wan't to study. I know a lot of kids who is working in Russia at the age of mine. and most of them don't know can't feel tenage life and they bacame unskilled person. or after Graduating schools kids want to attend to the Universities. ok let's Imagine they are studying at the University but they have to pay money for everything every single stuff. every Half quater or quater (semester). so we young teenagers have to do Something we have to tell them and teach them about everything as for me I'm readyi kn to teach them for free for everything whad do I know.
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