Education Ministry to spend 25 million soms on new school textbooks

Almost 25 million soms will be spent by the Ministry of Education on new school textbooks. The state procurement portal reported.

A total of 24,904,380 soms are budgeted for the purchase of services for the editing and replication of textbooks and teaching aids for schools in the Kyrgyz and Russian languages. Including 12.8 million soms are planned for the publication of reading textbook for the second grades.

The provision of secondary schools with textbooks makes up 83 percent. In 2010, this figure was 58 percent.

At present, according to the Ministry of Education, there is approbation of 33 titles of textbooks for the 5^th and 6^th grades, the testing of new textbooks for the 7^th, 8^th and 9^th grades will begin in 2018. The 10^th and 11^th grades are already learning according to new standards.