[lg policy] Fwd: Kyrgyzstan Scraps Graduation Exams In Uzbek Language

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: Fierman, William
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:21 PM

 Kyrgyzstan Scraps Graduation Exams In Uzbek Language



 *Kyrgyzstan Scraps Graduation Exams In Uzbek Language *

By RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service

March 04, 2015

BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan says that starting this year, it will not be possible
to take secondary school graduation tests in the Uzbek language.

Chynara Batyrakeyeva, an expert with the government's Center for Education
Assessment, which is in charge of preparing national school tests, told
RFE/RL on March 4 that starting from May, tests will only be conducted in
Kyrgyz or Russian.

In the past, secondary school graduates could choose if they wanted to take
the test in Kyrgyz, Russian or Uzbek.

Regulations introduced last year stipulated that graduates had to fill out
special forms requesting that they take the exams in Uzbek.

Batyrakeyeva says only 49 students requested that they conduct the exam in
Uzbek, therefore authorities decided to scrap the option altogether.

The Uzbek language issue in Kyrgyzstan has been a sensitive subject for
years.

It became even more complicated after clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and
Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan's south in 2010 left more than 400 people dead and
thousands more displaced.

Uzbeks make more than 10 percent of Kyrgyzstan's 5.7-million population and
reside mainly in the country's southern Batken, Jalal-Abad and Osh regions.





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 Harold F. Schiffman

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