The Legislative Chamber’s Committee for Science, Education, Culture and Sports sent a parliamentary request to the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education on the degree of provision of students with dormitories.
The Ministry found that there are more than 356 thousand full-time students enrolled in 115 Uzbek universities, with 208 dormitories available and 53 thousand students accommodated in them, while 103 thousand renting apartments, and about 200 thousand living in their homes. The analysis found that over 68 thousand students need dormitories.
According to the Ministry, in the framework of the higher education system’s comprehensive development program for 2016-2019, four dormitories were built with 1600 beds each, 28 were reconstructed, repairs were completed in 185.
The Legislative Chamber reportedly proposed to include in the program the building of another 13 dormitories with 4,610 beds and reconstruct 35 of them.
Taking into consideration that by 2030 the quota of admission will increase by 50%, another 300 dormitories must be built in the next 10 years, the Legislative Chamber noted.
