Education is the most important and development of education in jammu and Kashmir..
Education development in jammu and Kashmir began in 1857 , during the region of maharaja Ranbir singh.
He established vidya vilas press, the first press in jammu and Kashmir to translate books into sanskrit.
The first western and modern school in Kashmir was founded in 1880 by J. hilton knowles in the premises of missionary hospital in srinagar, founded as the church Mission society Boys School.
It is now called tyndale Biscoe school named after cecil canon tyndale Biscoe a British missionary who become the school principal in 1891 . Tyndale Biscoe school motto is.. In all things be men.
Tyndale Biscoe school is often attributed with founding the modern Education system in Kashmir. In order to promote education among illiterate kashmiri muslims an organization namely Anjuman e nusrat ul islam was founded by mirwaiz Rasool shah in the year 1899.
The first female school opened in jammu was Gurmat kanya pathshala while as in srinagar a lady from British church mission opened a girl school in 1890.
In 1930 the government made primary school education Compulsory and gave more attention towards basic, primary secondary and adult education in the state.
Education in jammu and Kashmir is divided into primary, middle, higher education secondary College and university level.
Jammu and Kashmir follows 10+2 pattern of education for children this is handled by jammu and Kashmir state board of school education ( JKBOSE) .
In addition there are various kendriya vidyalayas and indian army school that also impart secondary level school education these schools follow the CBSC pattern
Education is the most important in today era all over the world without education it is not possible to do anything.. Education play an important role in all sphere . The jammu and Kashmir state board of school education was established in 1975 it was established to advise the government on matters of policy relating to elementary education secondary education and other matters pertaining to promotion of education for all.
Higher education in jammu and Kashmir. The jammu and Kashmir higher education department is the controlling authority for all higher education institutions of union territory.
Jammu and Kashmir state higher education department has multi farious tasks to perform ie planning implementation monitoring and evaluating of the functioning of all the institutions under it's domain.
It regulates administrative, Academic quality and monitory aspects of all the government institutions.
