Termez State University connects elected representative offices with membership of the University Council through its trade union and Youth Union. The published Council membership for the 2024/2025 academic year includes the chairs or leaders of both organisations. The university’s official channel records a competitive election for the trade-union chair during 2025, while its published youth-organisation arrangements provide for the election of the Youth Union leader and that leader’s inclusion in university councils. These arrangements form the central institutional response to Indicator 16.2.1.
The university describes the University Council as its standing highest collegial governing body. Its remit covers teaching, research, organisational affairs and university development, including the consideration of reports from university units. Its stated operating principles include openness, free expression and consideration of the university community’s views. This gives representative membership a direct connection with institutional deliberation. The Council is chaired by the rector and operates under the university’s Charter and Council regulations.
The Council membership document for 2024/2025 lists 43 positions. The trade-union chair appears at entry 23, and Izzat Tolipov, leader of the university’s primary Youth Union organisation, appears at entry 27. Academic members include associate professors and a professor alongside deans and department heads. This dated membership record identifies where the representative organisations sit within the university’s collegial structure during the academic year overlapping the 2025 reporting period.
The clearest dated election account is the university’s trade-union reporting and election conference, publicised on 28 April 2025. Delegates elected from faculties, departments and administrative units attended alongside university leaders and representatives of the national and regional trade-union federation. The conference reviewed the union chair’s report on activity during 2020–2025 before proceeding to elections. The sequence connected the review of an officeholder’s work with the selection of the organisation’s leadership.
Different voting procedures applied to the elected offices. The union committee, audit commission and audit-commission chair were elected by open voting. The trade-union chair was elected by secret ballot, with alternative candidates, under regulations approved by the Federation of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan. The university announced the re-election of Samat Nishonovich Nishonov as chair. The published Council roster separately establishes that the trade-union chair holds Council membership. Read together, these records connect an elected staff-representation office with a position on the university’s governing council.
The delegate base spans academic and administrative units. Staff representation is described through the elected union office and its Council membership. The academic members listed in the Council roster are described by their recorded positions, preserving the distinction between Council membership and the procedure used to obtain it.
Youth representation follows the university’s published arrangements for its primary Youth Union organisation. These specify an election for the organisation’s leader at the beginning of each academic year, in September. They also provide for quarterly general meetings involving the youth council, faculty councils, group leaders and Union members. The leader reports to the relevant local Youth Union council and the rector. These provisions establish a recurring election and reporting cycle for the organisation that brings youth interests into university governance.
The institutional link is explicit: the Youth Union leader is included in university councils and in commissions dealing with young people. The 2024/2025 roster records that office within the Council’s membership. Student representation is described here through the Youth Union leader’s Council position. The election provisions and Council seat explain how the representative structure connects with university decision-making.
The university also publishes Council decision extracts. Its register includes extracts from meeting 5 on 28 January 2025, meeting 9 on 25 April 2025 and meeting 11 on 5 July 2025. These publications place the membership arrangements alongside a dated record of Council business during the reporting year. They also allow the university community to identify formal Council outputs and the meetings from which those outputs arose.
A subsequent public statement addresses the broader question of electing university rectors. On 28 October 2026, at the Central Asian Education Forum in Tashkent, Rector Abduqodir Toshqulov told journalists that the time had come to elect rectors and said that he was ready to take part in such an election. His statement supports discussion of electoral accountability at the level of university leadership. It is presented here with its 2026 date as a later reform position. The 2025 institutional account rests on the representative offices, voting procedures and Council membership described above.