Speaker: Mr. Haji Gurbanov, Managing Director Silk Road Samarkand Tourism Center (Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn, Minyoun, Lia, H Holding Inn, Crown Plaza)

Topic: The Development Story of Silk Road Samarkand Tourism Center

Moderator: Vice rector and Professor Tony Zou, “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage

Venue: Lecture Hall 229

Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Feb. 15th, 2024 (Thursday)

Today, 12 January, in the room 119 of "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage a meeting on the use and quality maintenance of Hemis system is held. The meeting, led by A.Gadaev, attended the heads of departments and heads of departments responsible for this topic. Speaking at the meeting, A.Tukhtamishov, Head of the Department of Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation, told about the results of the first semester and further improvement of the quality of education during the class. The meeting also exchanged views on the information about the attendance of students who left more than 74 hours of classes in the first semester, on the payment and attendance of students who were sent a warning letter, as well as on the division of groups, inclusion of their teachers' data in the Hemis system.

At the critical and analytical last meeting, necessary directions and instructions were given to the heads of responsible departments and divisions.

Medical check-up of the first and second year students of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage started in order to ensure the implementation of “Preventive examinations, screening programmes and measures to further improve the implementation of health check-up of the population” of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 27 July 2022. Students of our university on 7-16 February of the current year take a medical check-up with the participation of specialists of a wide profile of multidisciplinary polyclinic of Samarkand city.

Every day the growing authority of "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage arouses great interest in all regions of our republic.  A vivid example of this is the recent visit to our university of about 40 young people studying at the "Level up" training centre in the city of Karshi, Kashkadarya region, who got acquainted with the conditions of education here. Head of marketing and admission department O. Akbarov told in detail about the work carried out in this university, about innovations in the education system. After that, the students had an opportunity to get acquainted with the facilities created for students at the university.

         - I have heard a lot about “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. Today it is destined to come to the university and get acquainted. I was shocked by the facilities here. It was because of my interest in the field of tourism that I set my goal to study at this international university," says one of the young people.

Today our university constantly holds various competitions to organise students’ leisure time in a meaningful way, to attract young people to sports.

Recently, the physical education coaches of our university organised inter-team friendly volleyball games among students, in which the winners were determined.

On 8 February, the regional newspaper “Zarafshan” published an article by the first vice-rector of our university, Professor J.Eltazarov, about the successes achieved in the field of education at "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage.

The article talks about the tasks set in the strategy “Uzbekistan-2030” and their implementation, the fact that “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage has a national certificate, and the newest task is to enter the thousand best universities in the world with international certification and accreditation in the future.

The article also talked about the organisation of departments at “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage (“Uzbek Studies”) by the decision of the President.

We recommend all teachers of our university to get acquainted with this article.