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To maintain and consolidate the independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan, there must be an intelligent and skilled youth. Educating and preparing the youth to be fully developed members of a society is becoming the most important and serious task in the system of higher education. This task should be accomplished by rebuilding the educational system according to world standards and by enabling and equipping teachers to better educate their students in the foreign languages. The Samarkand Foreign Languages Institute was founded for the purposes of intensifying the qualification in the field of foreign languages, and improving the international relations with local companies by providing them with highly qualified specialists.
For this reason, by order of the President of Uzbekistan, on November 8th 1994 and by the decision of Ministers on November 9th, 1994 the Language Faculty of the Samarkand University became the Institute of Foreign Languages. The main mission of the new institute is: training qualified specialists in the field of philology, training language teachers, translators, tour guides, preschool English teachers, creating new intensified language teaching methods and providing a well-organized atmosphere for the students including the equipping of the institute with new modern technology. This newly founded institute has already begun making a great contribution to the academic life of Uzbekistan and its future development. There are six main faculties (schools) working at the Institute now. These are: English, German, French, Tour Guiding, Preschool, English and Teachers' Qualifying faculties. Additionally, there are presently some other languages being taught such as Italian, Arabic, Japanese, Turkish, Korean, and Persian as additional second languages. Since 1995, 1262 young specialists have graduated from Samarkand Institute of Foreign Languages.