Abstract--- The article examines topical problems of improving the quality of education and its key role in achieving the goals of accelerated socio-economic development of Uzbekistan. However, over the years, a huge number of problems have accumulated in the country's educational system, which significantly reduce the prestige and efficiency of the education system. The article reveals the reasons that gave rise to negative trends in the field of education, analyzes the active efforts made by the state to eliminate them, substantiates their inadequacy to solve the acute problems of economic growth in the country. In it, a radical improvement in the quality of education is considered as the most important way to solve the pressing problems of labor migration of the population and employment of the unemployed.