The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board is a successor of West Pakistan Textbook Board which was established in 1962. Prior to east of West Pakistan Textbook Board there was no regular system of printing, publishing & distributing Textbooks. The blue eyed publisher used to develop and print the books at their own and supply to the schools at personal contact.
In 1962, the government decided to introduce a regular system of production and distribution of textbooks. The West Pakistan Textbook Board on autonomous body was established beside East Pakistan Textbook Board. On disintegration of one unit in 1970 from provinces including NWFP were constituted, at that time two regional offices of West Pakistan.
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Activities to Support
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board is arranging various re-review meetings from time to time in order to improve the textbooks in light of feedback and suggestions received from the readers. Textbooks of Primary classes are re-reviewed through subject experts in Internal Review Meeting (IRC) at KP Textbook Board.
Education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
In pursuance of the decisions taken in the Education Secretaries Committee meeting held on 15 September4, 2007 in Islamabad and in partial modification of this Ministry’s notification No.F.8-1/2006-SSG dated 27 June, 2006, the part-wise examination system at Secondary School Certificate level shall be re-introduced
