The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation together with the Foundation for Support of Talented Youth “Ulugbek” and partner organisations announces the Republican competition “Heirs of Mirzo Ulugbek”.

For reference: citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan aged from 16 to 25 years old with their own scientific ideas, innovative developments and rationalisation proposals may take part in the contest.

Applications for participation in the competition are accepted from 15 January to 15 February this year on the official website of the competition (www.vorislar.uz), registration is required.

The 2024 New York Travel & Adventure Show, an international tourism exhibition, is being held these days in New York, USA. In total, the event was attended by about 20,000 participants from more than 160 countries, of which more than a thousand were tour operators.

It is important to note that along with the tourism potential of our country, historical monuments, tourist sites of Samarkand and activities of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage are widely promoted at this exhibition.

Akobir Sultanov, head of the Horica department of our university, took an active part in the exhibition, and the practical work on training qualified specialists in the field of tourism is widely promoted in our university. It is pleasant that due to the purposeful work on exchange of experience and practice of students in countries with developed tourism sphere, our university, along with establishing cooperation with major tourism enterprises, received offers to organise student internships in leading companies.

These days the republican stage of the Zulfiyakhanim State Prize is taking place. Happily, the four most creative, knowledgeable and intelligent female students of our university are participating in the republican competition of this award. The chairman of the “women’s council” M.Abbosova supervises the work of students and girls of our university participating in the contest. 

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4th year student Shakhnigorbegim Zhuraeva in the direction of literature

3rd year student Sabina Mustafakulova in the direction of science

3rd year students Fatima and Zuhro Bakhromkulova participate in the social direction.

We wish our students Zulfiya, who are participating on behalf of the team of Samarkand region and our university, good luck.

On 30 January of this year, a round table was held to meaningfully organise the free time of students of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage after classes and to promote the culture of reading among young people within the framework of the “Book Club” project.

At the roundtable meeting, valuable comments were made on the role and importance of books in the lives of young people. Also at the event they told about the essence of the novel “Between Two Doors” by the famous writer Utkir Hoshimov, the existing realities of the work. Particular mention was made of the artistic images of this novel, which, among others, conveyed to the Uzbek people the Second World War, the danger of war to humanity, the grave consequences it brought to our people, and the motivations of our compatriots.

         From 29 January to 2 February of this year, the winter final examinations for the 2023-2024 academic year are being held at “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage". The examination processes are conducted by the lecturers of the departments of Languages and Tourism Management, History and Cultural Heritage in their subjects. These processes, which take place in oral, written and test forms, once again test the knowledge of the student youth. The thirst for knowledge is much higher among students, so their preparation for exams is more satisfactory," says German language teacher Zahid Bektimrov.

         We wish all our students and young people good luck in the exams.

On 13 February, at 15:00, in room 108 of the university, a seminar on the topic “Avoiding plagiarism” will be organised by the lecturer of the department of “Languages” Yakubova Madina Kutfidinovna and the department of scientific research of our university. We invite everyone who is interested in this topic to attend the seminar.

         The academic level of each higher education institution is determined by the achievements of teachers working in the team, in science, articles in prestigious journals, titles in science. From this point of view, the scientific potential of the teaching community of our university is growing day by day. The next good news Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the recommendation of the Council of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage approved the scientific title of Associate Professor Nargiza Shamsidinovna Mansurova Nargiza Mansurova, Head of Scientific Research Department, on the speciality “Demography. Labor Economics”.

         The staff of our university also wishes Nargiza Shamsidinovna great successes on the way of development of scientific sphere and the continuation of such achievements.

         On 25 January of this year the 1st meeting of the Senate of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage was held. The meeting was headed by the first vice-rector of the university J.Eltazarov. At first, the information of J.Eltazarov was heard that the first issue on the agenda of the meeting was the implementation of directive documents of the Presidential Administration, Cabinet of Ministers, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and administration of the region in our university. It was noted that during the past year all practical work was carried out with the establishment of appropriate measures to ensure the fulfilment of the decrees and resolutions adopted by our President for the further development of tourism, education, science spheres. Besides, the tasks set in the directives of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the regional administration have also been done on time.

         After that, the second issue on the agenda was the approval of the work plan of the university for 2024, the head of the protocol secretariat department of the university A.Izbasarova provided information.

The third issue of the agenda was the making of changes and approval of the members of the University Senate, according to which a worthy candidate was unanimously admitted to its membership.

         The report of N.Mansurova, Head of the Department of Scientific Research of the University, “On the approval of scientific supervisors and thesis topics of the main doctoral students and independent researchers” together with its approval by the members of the Senate caused heated discussions, reasonable remarks were made about reconsideration of some scientific supervisors and thesis topics. One more question of the agenda - about recommendation of a group of professors and teachers of our university for the position of senior lecturer, the information of the head of department T.Sultanov was heard, and also full information was given by candidates about their contribution to the sphere of education, science. The last issue of the agenda was “Approval of the job descriptions of the faculty and staff”, the information of the Head of the Department of Human Resources (HR) A.Kholboev was heard.

         All agenda items of the 1st meeting of the Senate of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage were approved after heated discussions. The Vice-Rector of the University, Prof Tony Zou, the representatives of the Senate A.Tokhtamishev, N.Mansurova, S.Matlabov and others expressed their opinions on the agenda points.

Today, on January 26, the competition “Masters of Future Tourism” organised jointly with Samarkand Regional Department of Tourism and “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage took place in the assembly hall of our university.

Groups consisting of students of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, Samarkand Institute of Economics and Service, Samarkand Institute of Agro-innovation and Samarkand Technical School of Tourism and Cultural Heritage took part in the competition.

In the first stage of the competition, the teams made presentations of new start-up projects aimed at further development of the tourism industry. In this competition, the team of Shakhrukh Khaitboyev, a student of our university, focused on getting interested by presenting theatrical performances on various interesting topics in English, while the team of Shakhriyar Sharipov, an independent researcher, made a presentation on organising cinemas in open-air places of interest to tourists.

After that, at the second stage, the participants tried to demonstrate their talent in preparing tasty salads from vegetables of different shapes for foreign guests. At the end of each stage, the judges evaluated the teams. According to the points scored, the team “Silk Road” of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage took the 1st place with the highest number of points, the team of Samarkand Technical School of Tourism and Cultural Heritage “Tour Star” - 2nd place, and the team “Samariya” of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage - 3rd place.

The winners received valuable and memorable gifts from the organisers.

On 25 January of this year, partners from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, visited Margilan Technical School of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. During the visit it was agreed that the students of Margilan Technical School of Tourism and Cultural Heritage will be able to do their internship in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After that, the students of the technical school were sorted on the basis of an interview. Based on the results of the interview conducted by the partners, 7 students were interviewed and given the opportunity to do an internship in Jeddah. We congratulate these students for their success.