10 university rectors fired

According to the document, Alisher Umarov has been appointed rector of the Tashkent State Pedagogical University.

Shavkat Sharipov – rector of the Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute.

Bahodir Sobirov – rector of the Navoi State Pedagogical Institute.

Sobitkhon Turgunov – rector of the Namangan State University.

Batir Usmanov – rector of the Tashkent Chemical-Technological Institute.

Orifjon Bazarov – rector of the Engineering and Economic Institute of Karshi.

Sharifboy Ergashev – rector of the Namangan Civil Engineering Institute.

Mamirjon Atadjanov – rector of the Kokand State Pedagogical Institute.

Abdullajon Hamrakulov has become the executive director of the Tashkent regional branch of the Astrakhan State Technical University.

Jasur Rizayev, previously the rector of the Tashkent State Dental Institute, has been appointed rector of the Samarkand State Medical Institute.

The post of rector of the Tashkent State Dental Institute remains vacant.

Earlier, on January 31, during a meeting with scientists, representatives of the manufacturing sector and heads of research institutions, Shavkat Mirziyoyev said that soon several rectors of higher educational institutions of Uzbekistan would leave their posts.

“In the coming days we will dismiss more rectors,” the president said then.