Each Region to Get a Migration Training Centre by 2027, Funded at 8 Billion Soums Apiece

Every region of Uzbekistan will open a unified migration centre by 2027, with 8 billion soums allocated to each, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev ordered at a government meeting on labour migration held on 2 November. The centres are to prepare citizens for employment abroad through language instruction and vocational training, modelled on the existing international training centre known as Intil.

First deputy hokims of each oblast were directed to study Intil’s operating model and replicate it in their regions. The instruction reflects mounting pressure on the government to convert strong foreign demand for Uzbek workers into actual placements — a gap that, by the government’s own figures, remains wide.

45,000 Requests, 2,000 Placed

Presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov cited data showing that German employers submitted orders for 45,000 Uzbek specialists this year, yet only around 2,000 people were successfully placed. Officials identified the shortage of German-language speakers as the primary bottleneck.

To address this, authorities plan to prepare 10,000 people for employment in Germany in 2026, combining German-language courses with professional skills training. Five hundred native German speakers are to be brought into schools and technical colleges, and the number of German-language teacher graduates from universities is to double from the next academic year.

Existing Partnerships and New Commitments

Several programmes are already under way. In partnership with the German company Globogate, 20 medical colleges across the country are training 1,500 nurses annually. At the Karshi Advanced Vocational Skills College, German instructors teach both language and trade skills. In Andijan, a private entrepreneur renovated a disused technical college and organised training for 1,500 specialists a year, drawing on teachers brought from Germany.

Separately, the German certification company Telc has begun training 100 German-language teachers at the Intil centre; those instructors are to be deployed to regional technical colleges from the start of 2027.

Twenty Colleges to Be Retooled

Mirziyoyev also ordered officials to select 20 technical colleges within one month that will, from next year, orient their curricula toward the requirements of foreign employers. Large companies from Germany, Japan and South Korea have expressed interest in the model and indicated readiness to help design curricula and equip the institutions, according to the meeting’s outcomes.

The combined measures — regional centres, expanded language training, employer-linked colleges and a doubling of teacher output — represent the government’s most detailed public blueprint yet for narrowing the gap between the labour demand Uzbekistan’s workers face abroad and the preparation they currently receive at home.