Items filtered by date: March 2024

These days, celebrating the Navruz holiday, on 19 March, "National Costume Day" action was held at "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage.

 From early morning, the teachers, administration and students of the university dressed in national costumes, which are an integral part of the culture of any nation. National costumes are an example of the values and customs of our people.

Over the years, unique national costumes of our people with a long history have been formed. Our national costumes showcase not only the splendour of our nation, but also our spiritual ideologies and the place we occupy in the world.

The purpose of this event is to preserve and widely popularise our national costumes, which today are experiencing a long history, telling about the ideology and worldview of our ancestors.

Navruz is a holiday of kindness, which reflects our national traditions. On the occasion of the holiday, fourth year students of our university visited elderly grandparents of one of the nursing homes!

-Our goal will be achieved if our event, which spreads love, has at least lifted the spirits of our grandparents a little," said the students of our university.

These days there is a festive mood all over the country, Navruz is one of the national holidays of our people. These festive events associated with the coming of spring and embodying the traditions of our people were widely celebrated in the Central Park of Samarkand city.

During the festive events, in which all the enterprises and organisations of our city, higher educational institutions took part, the staff of our university also took an active part, also did not miss the opportunity to be active and celebrated Navruz in good mood.

On the territory given to our university in the Central Park, all necessary things were organised, under the leadership of the university the table was decorated and our various national dishes were served to it. Firstly, at the festive event, the First Vice-Rector of our university, Professor Dilmurod Nasimov, expressed his sincere wishes, heartily congratulating everyone on this national holiday. After that, on the one side tug-of-war of national sports games, wrestling competitions were organised, and on the other side musical events under the title "Happy Navruz Holiday!" were held.

National music, dances of students of our university, such countries as China, Korea, Turkey were presented at the festive events. Such a national performance of our university attracted the attention of everyone in the central park. The festive events are continuing.

On 20 March 2024, "Silk Road International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage" will host a painting competition on the theme of "Painting Works" among students.

If you have painting abilities and would like to participate in this competition with your artwork, samples of the best creations will be exhibited in the painting gallery in our university building.

Students who would like to participate can contact the tutor group!

Don't miss the time, take part in the competition!

The winners of the competition are awarded with souvenirs from the university.

Recently, during a visit to the UK, a delegation of students led by a lecturer of the Department of Tourism and Cultural Heritage of "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, they learnt about the conditions and opportunities created for students at leading universities.

Firstly, the members of the delegation, consisting of teachers and students of our university, were met by Oxford Brookes PhD student Sanjar Djumanazarov. Sanjar organised a tour of the campus for them and introduced them to the education system, telling them about the activities of the university. This was followed by meaningful talks on further strengthening potential co-operation between "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage and Oxford Brookes University.

During the interview, he talked about future academic exchange programmes and joint research initiatives. In addition, representatives of our university visited the world-famous Oxford University and the Bodleian Library.

Such a hands-on visit is not only an introduction to Oxford and Oxford Brookes universities, but also an important factor for significantly enhancing the educational experience of our students and further improving co-operation.

At this point, the members of the delegation expressed their gratitude to Sanjar Djumanazarov for his sincere hospitality and to the officials of Oxford Brookes and Oxford University for their warm welcome.

As previously reported, according to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan № 137-D of 6 March 2024, on 16-18 March of this year was organised a nationwide charitable khashar under the slogan "A well-maintained and prosperous mahalla is the decoration of the country", according to which the khashar was held with the participation of staff of "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. Fruit and ornamental trees were planted and trees were shaped. Flowers of different varieties were planted and the surrounding green area was cleaned up. On the second day of khashar, classrooms, doors and windows in the university building were completely cleaned of dust and rubbish. The staff also managed to tidy up the library, National Costume Gallery. On the third day of khashar, trees were whitewashed and rubbish heaps were removed from the corners of the canal located near the university. In general, all the employees of our university participated in this nationwide charitable khashar.

The head of the "Languages and Global Studies" department, Ph.D. T.I. Sultanov, conducted a seminar-training for the professors and teachers of the department on topic "Publishing articles in prestigious international journals". The seminar provided information on how to find prestigious journals listed in the Elsevier foreign database, how to register and submit an article on the website of journals in the Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 categories included in the Scopus bibliographic database.

Also, the steps of registration on the website of the DergiPark organization, which unites the prestigious international journals in Turkey, the conditions for publishing articles in Turkish journals included in the bibliographic database "Scopus" and the requirements for formalizing the article were explained in detail. Clear answers were given to the questions that interested the participants. It was noted that the publication of articles in prestigious magazines by professors and teachers will have a significant impact on the further increase of the university's international rating.

"National Clothing Day" event

Tuesday, 19 March, was announced as "National Dress Day" at "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. In this regard, we request the esteemed faculty, staff and students of our university to participate in this event.

In order to promote national values, all faculty, staff and students of the university should be dressed in national costumes during the day.

Join us and come to work in national dress on 19 March!

           According to the relevant decision of the Tourism Committee of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the order of the rector A.A. Abdukhakimov, Dilmurod Abdulloevich Nasimov was appointed to the position of First Vice-Rector for Administrative Affairs.

           Nasimov Dilmurod Abdulloevich graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Samarkand State University and received a master’s degree in this area from the same university. He completed his doctorate at Tomas Bata University in the Czech Republic. Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor.

          Before this period, Nasimov Dilmurod Abdulloyevich worked for several years as director of the Samarkand regional branch of the Academy of Public Administration, head of the department of scientific research and training of scientific-pedagogical staff and head of the department at Samarkand State University.

           The rector of the university A.A. Abdukhakimov introduced prof. D.A.Nasimov to the university team, wished him success in the position of First Vice-Rector and emphasized the need to pay attention to the implementation of the university’s priority objectives.

Today, March 15, in order to ensure the implementation of the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan IP-19 dated January 12, 2024 on the wide promotion of the Uzbek language among foreign students, a literary evening with the participation of members of the regional branch of the Union of Writers was held in the information and resource centre of our university. The event, which was attended by our foreign and domestic students, was attended by M. Abbasova, the chairperson of the women's council of our university, headed by the president. The event was initially attended by Zulfiyakhanim, an eminent artist, a student of Samarkand and today he is one of the members of the regional branch of the Union of Writers. Karimova spoke at length about the role and importance of the Uzbek language in literature. Then a member of the regional branch of the Union of Writers, poet E. Makhmudova read and delivered from her praise poems about her homeland and the Uzbek language. Also at the event, Head of the Department of Languages and Global Studies of our university, Associate Professor T. Sultanov told about the establishment of the department at our university for the implementation of the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan PP-19 of 12 January 2024 and consistent work in this direction.

At the event, talented students performed and showed an excerpt from Kadiri's work "Days Gone By" by a famous writer of the Uzbek nation. Our students also read their creative works at the event. The event was memorable because it was organised at a high level and made a great impression on all international students.