Items filtered by date: October 2023

The ancient and ever-popular Samarkand, which has a history of almost 3000 thousand years and was able to fascinate the whole world, welcomed its another  age today. On such a great day, we congratulate all professors, teachers, students, workers and employees of our university on October 18, Samarkand City Day.

May you have a good and lucky day, we wish our professors and teachers high achievements in thier work in education, diligence and perseverance to our students with their studies, and also we wish the employees many blessings for your contribution to education.

Happy holiday, dear team!

Our university organised “Days of psychological and collective counselling among women”.

Reception days: Friday of every month

Office hours: 9:00 - 18:00.

The rights of our women are established in the renewed Constitution.

On 17 October of this year a delegation headed by Daria Sannikova, Director of the Kazan Tourism Development Committee, visited our university. First Vice-Rector of the university, Prof. J.Eltazarov welcomed the guests. Within the framework of the visit with Daria Sannikova and the Kazan delegation the prospects of co-operation in the field of education and tourism were discussed.  The guests visited the university library and the national costume gallery, which demonstrated the richness of the cultural heritage of our area. An agreement was reached at the meeting to establish co-operation in the field of tourism and tourism education.

Republic of Uzbekistan Sh.M.Mirziyoyev at a video selector meeting on 2 November 2021, and ensuring the implementation of the tasks of Samarkand region administrator dated 16 September 2023 to create a scenic area in the region, planting fruit trees and shrubs in the autumn season of 2023 within the framework of the national project “Green Space”, in connection with the construction of a new building of the Academy under the “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage on 16 October of this year, planting of decorative trees and various flowers was carried out in the territory.

As part of this work, workers and university employees planted tree seedlings such as 100 chestnut trees, 30 linden trees, 5 maple trees, 24 pine trees, 180 fir trees and 30 trees of ginka biloba. As part of the landscaping programme, 20 species of rare 200 decorative trees were planted on the university campus.

On 14 October of this year, lecturers of the department “Tourism Management” Nodira Mukhammadieva, Elena Salnikova and Zarina Makhmudova familiarised university students with the restaurant “Khan Ahmad” and practical processes in the Gastroexpert Centre at the restaurant. In the course of the practical training the students had an opportunity to get acquainted with the system of work in the restaurant and the activities of the “Gastroexpert” Centre, and got answers to their questions. Importantly, the students also received an offer from the head of the restaurant, entrepreneur Akhmad Salayev, to work in the restaurant. At the end, the entrepreneur was presented with a Badge of Honour of the university, as well as a souvenir.

In recent years, on the initiative of the head of our government, favourable conditions have been created for resolving the women’s question, improving their living conditions, solving their problems in everyday life, and bringing their talents and opportunities to the surface. As a result of the special attention to increasing the activity of women in social life in the family, in society in particular, significant changes are taking place both in social relations and in legislation.

On 13 October 2023, “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage held a round table on “Protection of women from harassment and violence: in the family, in society and in public institutions", where the chairperson of the council, M.Abbasova, and the head of the department for work and activities with youth, N.Abduvakhidova, made a presentation of the women’s advisory council on the conditions created for women professors and teachers and students of the university to familiarize them with the legislation on protection against harassment.

During the meeting, the teachers noted that women have a huge role and importance in the development of our country, in the life of society, in the strength of families, women, who make up 50 per cent of the population of our country, function effectively in all spheres of society. At the end of the event students and girls got answers to their questions.

On October 12, the psychologist of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage  D. Turdieva with tutor G. Khusainova held a motivational training “Golden Rules of Studenthood” for freshmen.

         Boys and girls with huge dreams entered an important stage of their life - the beautiful period of studenthood. Of course, there are certain difficulties in this process. Therefore, at this meeting, the psychologist shared constructive recommendations and advice related to students' adaptation to the new conditions and the educational processes, and also informed about availability of a psychological service created at the university. In order to determine the socio-psychological state of students, they were given collections of psychological methods

The chairperson of the women’s council of our university M.Abbasova gave an interview in the broadcast “Assalom Samarkand” of the regional television about what work is carried out today in our university with the teaching staff of students and girls, what conditions are created for them and what is the gender equality conditions.

Provision of electronic automated and remote access in the information resource centre of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage https://unilibrary.uz /  the platform is available. This platform is placed on a tablet in the form of a table at the entrance to the library ( reception).

This platform includes 186,974 items of literature, 26,078 articles, 8,252 monographs, 20,896 dissertations. Remote reading of this literature provides an opportunity for self-study. In addition, a special QR code tracking system has been created at the entrance to the library, which allows remote tracking of all the literature available in the library and reservation of these books.

“Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage Information and Resource Centre has 25,371 items of literature in the form of books under the title of 13522. Of them 4801 copies of literature in Uzbek language, 3680 copies in Russian language, 10 749 copies in English language and 5141 copies in other languages. Of these: printed literature in bound forms-25371 pcs, electronic-911 pcs, Braille-17 pcs, audio-58 pcs, educational literature in bound forms-1039 pcs, scientific literature-1814 pcs, fiction-1793 pcs, foreign literature-19354 pcs, other literature-371 pcs.

All conditions for students and teachers are created in the library. The library has 1 electronic room with 14 new (hp) computers. There are also 2 study halls and a room for intellectual games. In the first study hall there are 18 soft cushions (poufs). The second study hall has 21 seats and students have the opportunity to read books and prepare a lesson using educational literature. In the Brainstorming room, teachers and students hold discussions on a topic of interest. At the same time, Atriuum Book Systems (USA) platform is used in the library. Through this platform, students and teachers can find the literature they need, borrow it, or come to the Information Resource Centre and borrow it. All the rooms of the library are equipped with cooling (air-conditioning) devices and each room is decorated in its own beautiful way.

Currently, the EBSCOhost database of local and international information and databases in the information resource centre of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage http://search.ebscohost.com , Atrioom Book Systems https://univsilkroaduz.booksys.net , Proquest https://www.proquest.com , Unilibrary.uz https://unilibrary.uz , Springer https://link.springer.com ) are used.

On 12 October of this year, Professor Ma Jian, Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University of China, gave a lecture for the students of our university on “From oasis to grassland: the early development and interaction of the mountains of Eastern Tianshan”. During the lecture, information about the importance of the East Tianshan region in the history of the Great Silk Road, archaeological scientific expeditions conducted in the territory of oases and grasslands was presented.

It was also told about the importance of scientific research works carried out in Surkhandarya region with the cooperation of Chinese-Uzbek archeologists. At the end of the lecture, the students received answers to their questions.