Public and private schools: KP to conduct uniform, universal exams for class five from 2018

Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary & Secondary Education (E&SE) Department has decided to conduct uniform and universal examination for class five in public and private schools from 2018. This was stated by the Secretary BISE Peshawar Bukhtiar Ahmed during a live weekly talk show of E&SE on Khyber Pakhtunkwa Radio FM 92.2.
"This initiative begun in 2014-15 through assessment of grade five students across the province of KP and will continue till 2017 and finally we will be converted in an examination in 2018. The purpose is to improve teaching & learning process by moving away from rote learning to conceptual understanding and applications which will help our students compete and excel in modern world "Bakhtiar Ahmed, Secretary BISE remarked while responding to the live calls on FM 92.2.
The Elementary & Secondary Education Department (E&SED) is currently running a public awareness campaign to educate the general public on various reforms initiatives of KP E&SED. These programmes are aired on every Thursday on official radio channel of Khyber Pakhtunkwa (FM 92.2) while live calls are also taken during the program and on Facebook page of E&SED (www.facebook.com/kpese.gov.pk).