Items filtered by date: November 2023

On November 8 of this year, the leadership of our university and the primary trade union organization widely celebrated the holiday November 11– Trade Union Day. Firstly, on this holiday, competitions were held among the teachers and staff of our university in such sports as mini-football, chess, checkers, table tennis. The competitions were held in uncompromising conditions. Especially in the mini-football competition the team of the office registrar department of our university was awarded the 1st place, the 2nd place - the team of the rectorate and the 3rd place - the team of the accounting department. The winners in the other sports were also selected.

On the occasion of the celebration, an awarding ceremony of the winners of the sports competitions held in the conference hall of our university. Suhrob Rafikov, chairman of the Samarkand regional council of the Federation of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan, who spoke at the event, congratulated all the participants on the holiday and spoke about the work carried out by trade unions in the region today. After that, the main part of the event was followed by awarding the winners of the competitions. The participants and winners of the competitions were awarded with certificates of appreciation and gifts.

On November 9 of this year, pupils of the Specialized Professional School for Persons with Disabilities under the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of Samarkand Region visited “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. During the visit, the pupils familiarized with the gallery of national clothes of the Turkic world, as well as with the activities of the library and sports clubs.

During the visit, an agreement was reached on providing psychological, correctional and pedagogical assistance to pupils and practical help in organizing adaptation of pupils in the social sphere between the specialized professional school and the university for disabled pupils of Samarkand.

Examination procedures for applicants who have applied for the qualifying examination in the speciality of 08.00.17- “Tourism and hotel activities” at “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage has been scheduled to take place at 2:30 p.m. on November 28, in room 108 of the university building.

Candidates are asked to come to the place of the qualifying examination half an hour before the beginning time together with their personal identification documents (passport) as well as researchers’ dissertation abstracts.
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On November 7 of this year, members of the delegation headed by the President of Institute for Development of International Relations of Slovakia visited “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. The Vice-Rector of the university J.Hoffman welcomed the guests. Nargiza Abduvakhidova, head of the department of work with youth and organization of events, carefully acquainted the guests with the work carried out today to train qualified specialists in the field of tourism at the university. N.Abduvakhidova, the head of the department of work with youth and organization of events, carefully acquainted the guests with the work being carried out today to train qualified specialists in the field of tourism at the university.

It is known that today our country established close cooperation with many European countries. As a result, a number of practical activities are carried out between the states in such fields as science, tourism. The guests carefully familiarized with the National Gallery of Costumes of the Turkic World at our university, laboratories in the field of tourism for students. The members of the delegation were also very impressed with the library in our university and the books in it, the opportunities created for students.

The head of the delegation presented various literature to the library of our university.

On November 6 of the current year, the department of work with youth and organization of events and tutors organized a preventive event for first and second year students on the theme “Increasing the level of legal knowledge of students and prevention of committing offenses and crimes by them” at “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage.

Nargiza Abduvakhidova, head of the department of work with youth and organization of events, speaking at the event, told about offenses and crimes committed by some students of youth today, despite the fact that all conditions have been created for students' education, noting that there is insufficient propaganda work in this direction in the field, there is a low level of legal literacy.

It is not a secret that today in our country some students studying at the university make such negative situations as illegal invasion, theft, misappropriation of other people’s property.

The conducted propaganda event gave a complete idea about various offenses and crimes committed by students, about the types of punishments applied for non-compliance with traffic rules. It was also told about building mutual respect, self-esteem, sense of dignity, religion among students and youth and the youth were called for awareness.

On November 6 of this year, the Youth Council started the project “Book Exchange 2023”, which aims to widely promote reading among students of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, and to tell their peers about the reality of books that young people read.

The aim of this project is to strengthen their academic and intellectual knowledge by telling their peers about the books that young people read. In addition, the discussion of books was conducted in a foreign language and an attempt was made to develop in young people the art of public speaking. Young people exchanged books they had read with their peers and shared their thoughts about the book.

On November 6 of this year, a group of famous professors of Turkey visited our university. The First Vice-Rector of the university, Professor J.Eltazarov met and welcomed the guests who visited the ancient and eternally young Samarkand.  As you know, today our university has joint cooperation with a number of prestigious universities of the world, in particular with Turkey, in such areas as science, academic student exchange. During the dialogue there were discussed such issues as further improvement of these cooperative ties, popularization of Turkey’s experience in training specialists in the field of tourism.

Presentation of books created in the field of tourism, cultural heritage, language, literature and philosophy by professors of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage was held.

At this event, detailed information was given to the audience by authors about the textbook “We learn Uzbek” and “Japanese-Uzbek-English phrase book” by Professor of the “Languages” Department, J. Eltazarov, “Uzbek-English illustrated dictionary for tourists” by Associate Professor of the Department, T. Sultanov, as well as the handbook “Global Literature” by Professor of the Department of “History and Cultural Heritage”, K. Mustayev, the textbook “History of the Development of Samarkand Urban Culture” by Associate Professor of the Department M. Sidikova, the monograph “Creative thinking and dialectics of informational culture” by PhD Odil Boynazarov.

Professor R.Hoffmann, vice-rector for Academic Affairs of the university, Heads of the Departments, international students, professors and teachers of Japan International University, Turkology Research Institute of SamSU and faculty of Philology took part in the presentation.

At the end of the event, the authors presented books to the participants.

On November 3 of this year the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France Aurelia Bouchez visited the university. J.Hoffman, Vice-Rector of the university, welcomed the guest. It is known that today the relations of cooperation between Uzbekistan and France are expanding day by day. President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Samarkand, particularly his visit to our country yesterday, is a bright example of this.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France Aurelia Bouchez familiarized with the work carried out at our university to train qualified specialists in the field of tourism. The guest also considered the conditions of international level, created for in-depth study of this field by students in the recently opened International Academy of Tourism. All the conditions and opportunities created for the students in the building of the academy made a great impression on the guest. The restoration and opening of the thematic office “Silk Road” delighted the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France Aurelia Bouchez.

On November 4, 2023, at 9:00 am and 11:00 am (university building room number 108) at the Scientific Seminar in the presence of Scientific Council numbered under DSc.33/01.02.2022.I.145.01 the defence of dissertations work will take place and proceed as follows:

1. Independent researcher of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage Tokhtamishov Aziz Kahramonovich 08.00.17 - interdepartmental lecture on the topic “Innovative development of the tourism sector based on the cluster approach” in the specialty “Tourism and hotel activity” (economic sciences) discussion of the dissertation written for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD);

2. Alimardonova Zebuniso Mamarajabovna, an independent student of Termiz State University, 08.00.17 - written to receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on the topic “Improving mechanisms of effective use of tourism resources of Surkhandarya region” in the specialty “Tourism and hotel operations” (economic sciences) dissertations will be discussed.