Kyrgyz Education Ministry tries to resolve school textbook shortage

AKIPRESS.COM - Schools should be supplied with new textbooks, Minister of Education and Science Almazbek Beishenaliev said at the First Forum of School Librarians today in Bishkek.
The Jany Kitep [new textbook] Enterprise was set up under the Ministry of Education for this purpose, the Education Minister said.
The enterprise will publish new textbooks on fees received from textbook rental, the Minister added.
"This will allow us to address the problem of textbook shortage eventually," the Minister said.
The country resolved this problem before with support of donors and sponsors, the Minister stated.