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Name of university: Tashkent State Institute of Railways Engineers, www.tashiit.com

Brief description of university, faculty, department, number of students

Tashkent Institute of Railway Transport - university in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) to train specialists in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of railways. Founded in 1931. Until 1937 it was called the Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers.

When the Great Patriotic War in Tashkent students and faculty were evacuated to the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers, they were accepted to college and learning process continued. Students of the institute participated in the design of lines and branches, including branches at Almalyk mines, branch Kyzyl Tukumachi - Angren branch to Boysun and Shargun fields located at Hissar range. Students also participated in the construction of the eastern bypass of Tashkent station.

Faculties

• Electromechanical Faculty

• Organization of transportation and control (ASUP)

• Faculty of Economics

• Construction faculty

Contacts of responsible person: Mrs. Xodjimuxavedova Matlyuba, PhD in Technical Sciences, tel. +998712990015, +998909727558, email: matlyuba_78@mail.ru, Tashkent state institute of railway transport engineers

Project description

Project Title: Developing of the study base in high-speed railway movement in Republic of Uzbekistan.

Relevance to national or regional priorities

• Introduction of quality assurance

• Qualifications frameworks

• Physical science, and Computing

• Knowledge triangle: education-innovation-research

• Development of partnerships with enterprises

• Development of international Relations

Brief need analysis

The problems that project is focused on and is aimed to solve are very actual nowadays because of the following reasons.

The graduating students of Railway institutes are future railway engineers and teachers in colleges and institutes. For the time being the skills and knowledge of most graduating students, especially in physical sciences, do not satisfy modern requirements. By improving the quality of pedagogical students’ education we can make great contribution not only to the development of people’s education system but also to economic, political, railway industry and social development of Uzbekistan in the long run.”.

For achieving this long run goal, improvement of teachers’ staff qualification in railway institutes is very necessary.

So development of modern qualifications frameworks for teachers’ staff is one of the important issues for railway institutes.

Also, undeveloped partnership with enterprises, almost absence of Knowledge triangle: education-innovation-research in railway institutes does not unlock the potential and opportunities that could be for economic growth and political-social development in Uzbekistan.

The objectives of the project are following:

to promote the integration of education, science and production by developing modern research and innovation activities of students, teachers and entrepreneurs in railway institutes and enterprises (knowledge triangle: education-innovation-research);

• to improve the quality of students’ education and qualification of teachers’ staff (especially, students and teachers of physical science and computing) in railway institutes;

• to enhance quality assurance in railway institutes by developing modern qualifications frameworks and effective methods education evaluation

• to interest and involve youth from railway institutes, schools and colleges in activities of the project

Activities of the project are following:

• selecting teachers (mostly teachers of physical science and computing) of railway institutes on competition base for creating project’s workgroup;

• organizing training/s on improvement the qualification, knowledge and experience of selected teachers in EU educational institutions (trainings on improving and implementing knowledge triangle: education-innovation-research, qualifications frameworks and quality assurance, new approaches in teaching physical science and computing);

• realizing mini-projects by selected and trained teachers on improvement the quality of education in their disciplines and directions in Uzbekistan;

• using methods as questioning, interviewing and information technologies (creating the web site of the project, maintaining networking) in activities and mini-projects of the project;

• involving students, schools, colleges and enterprises in mini-projects of selected trained teachers and activities of the project;

• cooperating with the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education and Ministry of People’s Education and Uzbekistan Railways in development of modern qualification frameworks and study programs in railway institutes;

• organizing master classes and trainings on introducing Knowledge triangle: education-innovation-research, quality assurance and physical science discipline courses for teachers, students enterprises by inviting international and national education experts to the information center.

 Target groups and stakeholders

• Institutes of Railway engineers

• Students and student organization

• Enterprises

• Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of Uzbekistan and Ministry of Public Education

• Colleges and schools

Information about other HEIs in Uzbekistan to be involved in project

• Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of Uzbekistan

• Ministry of Public Education

• Joined State Railway Company