"We still have shortcomings in applying students' knowledge in a scientific direction." Minister on PISA 2025 results
According to E’zozxon Karimova, the impact of investments made in education was also reflected in the PISA 2025 results. However, there are shortcomings regarding students' application of acquired knowledge in scientific directions and parental involvement in education. "In the future, we will pay serious attention to these issues," the minister said.
“We still have shortcomings in applying students' knowledge in a scientific direction.” Minister on PISA 2025 results
The PISA 2025 results showed that the performance of Uzbekistan's students is encouraging, while at the same time there are still issues in the education system that need to be resolved.
According to E'zozxon Karimova, the PISA study examined students' knowledge in science, the educational conditions created for them in schools, and a number of other aspects. The results showed that Uzbekistan took a high place among Central Asian countries.
Based on the results, the minister also listed the areas that need to be focused on in the next stage. She noted that from now on, more attention will be paid to students' ability to apply the knowledge they have acquired in a scientific direction. She assessed this as one of the main tasks facing the education system.
“Our children are acquiring knowledge, but we still have shortcomings in applying it in a scientific direction,” says Karimova.
According to her, another important task in the education system is to strengthen cooperation between schools and parents. In the PISA study, along with the teaching provided by teachers, the family's support for the child's education was also analyzed.
“The students themselves confirmed that our teachers are trying to teach children with all their heart. However, we also need to pay more serious attention to the issue of parents' involvement in their child's education,” says the minister.
“We have developed such a trend: a parent thinks, 'I have created all the conditions for my child to get an education, and that's it.' There are many cases where they expect everything else — acquiring knowledge, and even upbringing — from educational organizations,” Karimova added.
The minister emphasized that parents should also be interested at home in what their child is learning at school.
“When a child comes home from school, just asking: 'Well, what did you learn today, what did you understand?' increases the sense of responsibility in the child. The teacher asks from this side, the parent asks from that side,” she says.
Karimova noted that investments made in education have also begun to show their effectiveness in the PISA results. According to her, the results of investments directed into the education sector in 2022 are now beginning to be seen.
“The aspect that makes me happy is that the investment in education has gradually begun to show its results. I think this is the result of the attention paid and opportunities created by our esteemed president for our children to receive adequate knowledge,” says the minister.
Within the framework of the PISA 2025 study, students' level of receiving information and knowledge in the digital world, as well as their skills related to using artificial intelligence, were also studied.
According to E'zozxon Karimova, teaching students to use artificial intelligence for useful purposes and correctly will now be one of the important tasks facing the education system.
According to her, practical work in this direction has already begun. Manuals on artificial intelligence prepared by East China Normal University were brought to Uzbekistan, localized, and translated into the Uzbek language.
“They are currently being printed and will be delivered to all our schools by the end of September,” she says.
The minister emphasized that the results of using these manuals may be reflected in future PISA studies.
Karimova also noted that Uzbekistan continues its participation in international educational studies, and an agreement has been reached on the country's participation in the PISA 2029 study.
“Education never stops,” says the Minister of Preschool and School Education.
As a reminder, in PISA 2025, Uzbekistan's students ranked 48th with 438 points in science among 91 countries and education systems, and 72nd with 402.4 points in the “Learning in the Digital World” domain.
Mathematics and reading results have not yet been announced due to inconsistencies in the data.