PESHAWAR, June 4: The NWFP government will set up an examinations commission to improve the quality of education in the public and private sectors. The decision was announced during a meeting chaired by NWFP Minister for Education Maulana Fazle Ali Haqqani here on Monday.

The commission, besides supervising examination reforms, would regulate the private sector, bring uniformity in the curriculum and conduct examinations for class V, class VIII, diploma in education, CT and other provincial teaching courses.

Private schools would be categorised as “A”, “B” and “C” after monitoring of their academic standards.

EXAMS POSTPONED: The NWFP Board of Technical Education has notified all people concerned that the GTVT’s (women) Vocational/Post Matric/ Post Middle/Short Course and Short Course Troops Family and Welfare Centre/Ladies Industrial School of Social Welfare Department Mansehra/ Industrial Home and L.I.H., Kohat Road, Annual Examinations 2007, scheduled for June 6, have been postponed. The exams will be held on June 20.—Agencies