The measures were announced at a meeting with teachers and mentors.
Teachers who hold a national professional certificate will receive a 50% supplement to their salaries, while leading teachers from each of Uzbekistan’s 208 districts and cities will receive an annual UZS 30 million award.
The government will also expand opportunities for teachers to undergo professional training abroad, sending an additional 1,000 teachers each year to countries including the United Kingdom, France and Singapore.
Mirziyoyev said he regularly receives letters from students who have studied abroad under the presidential scholarship program, recalling how some of them had been met with disbelief when they explained how their education was being funded.
“I receive many letters from these students. When children from ordinary families go abroad on a presidential scholarship, people there sometimes ask them, ‘Is your father a billionaire or a millionaire?’ And when they say their father is an ordinary worker, people find it hard to believe that the Uzbek state is paying for their education,” the president said.
He said some people were even surprised when the students explained that the Uzbek state was covering their education costs, noting that such support was not available to students in some other countries.
The government will also offer interest-free loans to cover university tuition fees for the children of teachers with at least 15 years of work experience.
Mirziyoyev said the new measures would provide additional support and recognition to nearly 100,000 teachers.
