Schools of Courage will be set up in place of a secondary school in each district and city of Uzbekistan. This is stipulated in the president’s November 15 decree on improving the system of initial pre-conscription training of young students.
The main objective of such schools will be "educating children from an early age in the spirit of boundless devotion to the Motherland, physically healthy and spiritually developed individuals."
In schools of courage, students will be taught mathematics, initial pre-conscription training (IPT), history, fitness, foreign languages, and physics in depth. The selection of students for such schools will begin in the fifth grade.
In addition, robotics, medical training, legal literacy, and national sports clubs will be set up for students in "schools of courage." Practical classes will be held twice a school year at military training grounds, as well as quarterly in military units.
To provide methodological support to the "schools of courage", a system will be adopted for assigning them to higher military and paramilitary educational organizations of the ministries and departments that are part of the Armed Forces. These institutions will provide methodological assistance in accordance with the area of their activities.
In all secondary schools, IPT will be taught for two hours a week, and in grades 10-11, one additional hour per week will be added.
A government meeting chaired by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took place earlier this month, where the issue of improving the system of patriotic education in schools was discussed.
