“We incur heavy costs reproducing the infrastructure and technology of the past century,” Atambayev said during an open meeting with Education and Science Minister Kanat Sydykov in mid-April. “The school curriculum is overloaded, and innovative schools are lacking at all levels. … There is no access to modern teaching programmes and technologies.”
The educational system must supply qualified workers to the labour market for the country to continue developing, Atambayev said. He pushed for reducing the number of universities, saying only the largest Kyrgyz institutions of higher education should provide advanced degrees.
The educational system is mired in crisis, Kanybek Osmonaliyev, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sports, agreed.
“We need a clear-cut strategy,” he said. “We sternly criticised the existing (educational) strategy starting last year ... Sydykov has already brought the strategy 50% in line with our realities.”
One drawback of the Kyrgyz educational system is that “all schools have dropped their educational mission and have turned into businesses,” he said.
“Although education in this country is supposed to be free, each school has ‘public funds’ handled by the principal, which collect money from parents for whatever suits the school’s fancy: cleaning rags, teachers’ birthday parties and stationery. Universities do the same,” he said.
Education strategy being devised
The educational system must supply qualified workers to the labour market for the country to continue developing, Atambayev said. He pushed for reducing the number of universities, saying only the largest Kyrgyz institutions of higher education should provide advanced degrees.
The educational system is mired in crisis, Kanybek Osmonaliyev, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sports, agreed.
“We need a clear-cut strategy,” he said. “We sternly criticised the existing (educational) strategy starting last year ... Sydykov has already brought the strategy 50% in line with our realities.”
One drawback of the Kyrgyz educational system is that “all schools have dropped their educational mission and have turned into businesses,” he said.
“Although education in this country is supposed to be free, each school has ‘public funds’ handled by the principal, which collect money from parents for whatever suits the school’s fancy: cleaning rags, teachers’ birthday parties and stationery. Universities do the same,” he said.
Education strategy being devised
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