Topic 1: “Entrance to Subject: Academic Skills and Professional Competence"

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1. "Academic Skills and Professional Competence" (ASPC) Subject Content.

The Academic Skills and Professional Competence subject is a compulsory discipline necessary for developing skills and competencies required by schools and universities. This subject is designed based on the main goals of education requirements in training specialists, forming teamwork skills, and developing research abilities in the educational process.

"Citizens' goals in education, upbringing, and knowledge were achieved. Zero barriers were created for accessing knowledge and education."

Source: Speech by President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the Supreme Assembly of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, December 20, 2022

Education — education for students has a certain purpose, knowledge, skills, and abilities are given accordingly, their general and professional skills are formed, personalities are shaped that will serve society in an organized systematic manner.

Upbringing — at a certain goal, through specific social experiences in formation youth, teaching their principles, moral-ethical values, and forming personalities shaped in accordance with universal values.

"Education" and "Upbringing" Terms Explanation

Types of Education in the Republic of Uzbekistan

"Higher Education" —

In the field of economy, science, technology and material-spiritual life, to acquire professional abilities, knowledge, skills for working in relevant fields, to form higher intellectual development that conforms with practical requirements of specialists.

Higher education is an uninterrupted education system's independent type. According to the Republic of Uzbekistan's legislation, in accordance with general secondary (11th grade) and secondary specialized, vocational-technical education basis, higher education institutions implement it.

The higher education institution implements higher education subjects according to state requirements and procedures according to legal acts. The Republic of Uzbekistan Cabinet of Ministers by the established procedure was formed and operates in accordance with its Charter and other regulatory legal documents.

Higher Education

Main Goal of Higher Education

Providing responses to demands of the times, competitive, highly educated, higher education specialist students with their own independent worldview to the republic's science, culture, economy, social spheres in developing their consciousness, independent thinking, possessing high moral qualities prepares above competent specialists.

State Policy's Basic Principles Based on Higher Education Field

Basic Functions of Higher Education

Basic Functions of Higher Education

Types of Higher Education Institutions in Uzbekistan

Higher Education in Two Stages — Bachelor's and Master's Degrees�

• Bachelor's degree is higher education based on one of the fundamentals of general secondary education, lasting at least three years, providing fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities, lasting at least three years.

• Master's degree is highly specialized higher education based on undergraduate education completion, lasting at least one year.

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Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's degree is one of the main levels based on general secondary fundamental education.

Bachelor's education is completed after state exams and defense by students in accordance with state attestation results, after which students receive "bachelor" degree diplomas certified according to established procedures and recognized by the state.

According to state and field standards established according to general requirements of the republic, the maximum capacity of bachelor's degree preparation, workload level, personnel formed in accordance with qualification classification problems and other issues are determined with "State education standards" and "Higher education specialists classification" classifiers.

2. "Academic Skills and Professional Competence" (ASPC) Subject Goals and Objectives

"Academic Skills and Professional Competence" Subject Goals

• Understanding the environment and theoretical-methodical associations of academic skills and professional competence;
• Forming personal effective and universally compatible understanding concepts;
• Forming academic skills and training development special characteristics direction;
• Providing recommendations for developing students' academic skills;
• Forming self-independence and effective working skills for students;
• Forming academic skills and professional effective organizational characteristics;
• Forming teamwork effective skills development;
• Developing creative thinking about education and professional activities;
• Acquiring general and professional skills with economical specialist students

"Academic Skills and Professional Competence" Subject Objectives

• Teaching personal effectiveness organizational associations;
• Teaching students' self-management and working effectiveness organizational responsibilities;
• Introducing students' teamwork organizational effective associations;
• Introducing students' oral presentations, conspects based on knowledge, academic writing, academic voice, academic ethics principles and individual presentation characteristics;
• Teaching professional competence and university development directions;
• Developing professional skills development through providing professional economical skills flexibly, suitable for working effectiveness and favorable continuous professional employment.

3. Academic Skills and Their Environment

Academic Skills

• Students' developing academic skills helps tests collection, assignments completion, and successful cooperation with research.

Academic Skills

4. Professional Competence and Its Importance

• Competence is citizen's qualification activity abilities, methods, rights truly realizing, confirmed by qualified organization, is ability forming knowledge and skills bundles shaped in education results.

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• Competence is personal commonly directed toward effectively solving certain duties in accordance with knowledge and skills goals according to achievement.

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Competence Concept

Economic Professional Competence Concept

Economic professional competence is characterized in specific characteristics corresponding to theoretical knowledge, this is special and theoretical knowledge in economic field, professional skills, experience, working needs fulfillment within their competence.

Economic professional competence is comprehensive knowledge.

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