With the help of substantial foreign aid, Uzbekistan has poured cash into its education sector in recent years, but challenges persist.

Branches of Russian universities give select Uzbek students what they can’t always get locally: prestige and jobs.

Books by Central Asian leaders are no novelty, but few are as ubiquitous or unavoidable as those of the Uzbek president.

Need better marks in school? In Uzbekistan, a little extra cash can help.

In three years’ time, Uzbekistan is supposed to have switched from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. But some laws are made to be broken.