Kyrgyzstan distributes new textbooks for expanded schooling
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Uchkun printing house in Kyrgyzstan is currently producing 40,000 textbooks daily to support the country’s shift to a 12-year school education system.
The publishing house, Okuu Kitebi, is distributing complete learning packages, textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s guides, to students across Kyrgyzstan. Last year, students in the first, second, fifth, and seventh grades received new books in English, mathematics, natural sciences, and a subject called Alippe. This year, third, sixth, and eighth graders will receive the new textbooks.
Okuu Kitebi plans to provide textbooks to fourth and ninth graders next year, completing the rollout. Tologon Amatov, director of Okuu Kitebi, stated that the remaining textbooks will be delivered to schools within a week, prioritizing remote regions before sending them to Bishkek, the capital city. The new school year in Kyrgyzstan begins on September 15.
