Meeting with female students of the OshTU and OshSU Natural-Technical Winter Schools held January 20, 2016
January 22, 2016, 06:00
A meeting was held with female students of the OshTU and OshSU schools at the Osh Technological University, January 20, 2016.
The meeting centered on discussions. Girls of the OshSU computer literacy courses, physics and mathematics teachers and girls from the OshTU, and girls from grades 9-11 in Osh Oblast attended the meeting.
The following issues were discussed during the meeting:
- Why are there currently relatively few girls interested in science and technology?
- Why aren’t students interested in lessons in mathematics and physics?
- Is there a great need for teachers to direct students’ attention towards a future profession?
- What is the importance of engineering, technology, and other technical fields?
The discussion was fascinating. The female students said, “We didn’t know there were such kinds of professions. We thought the only professions out there were things like doctors, teachers, economists, and lawyers. By studying at the winter school, we learned that there is in fact a wide variety of different kinds of work.” Teachers also were attentive to this issue and pointed out the necessity of helping students choose professions.
During the discussion, Aijamal Ermamatova, a student at Isanov, Kojoke School in Nookat Rayon, had this to say: “This past Fall, teachers from our school attended the computer literacy courses organized by The ‘Initiative of Roza Otunbayeva’ IPF, and have started to use computers in their own classes. As a result, students in these classes have become interested. My older sister has started telling me to learn how to work with computers, because there are a lot of professions that are related to computer technology and programming.”
As a reminder, a 24-hour course in computer literacy organized by The “Initiative of Roza Otunbayeva” IPF was given in November and December of 2015 for teachers of Nookat and Kara-Suu Rayon schools.
