Chemistry teacher Mokhira Boltaeva received a total of nearly 1 billion soums, or 80 thousand USD worth of bonuses for her students who won medals at Chemistry Olympiads for the last three years, Nigoh reported.
Mokhira Boltaeva, 23, and works at the Specialized Avicenna school in Tashkent. She won a silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 2019. Now she is purposefully preparing talented schoolchildren for the Olympiads.
- This year I beat my own record - three of my students won medals at the International Chemistry Olympiad. My students have five more victories in the provincial Olympiads, she added.
Boltaeva received the most prize money - 378 million soums at the awarding ceremony of Olympiad winners and their teachers. She was also awarded 350 million soums in 2023 and 250 million soums in 2022.
In total, in 2024, Uzbek schoolchildren won 122 medals in international and regional Olympiads, which, according to the Minister of Pre-school and School Education, Hilola Umarova, was a historical record. The government contributed 9 billion soums ($700,000) as prize money to the winners and their teachers.
Students who won medals at international Olympiads are provided scholarships for universities, and their teachers' salaries are incgoubled during the next academic year, and they are awarded the category of higher qualification. Winners of prestigious international Olympiads will receive a 150% salary increase if they teach the subject they won in educational institutions.
